Collins Nunatak
| Collins Nunatak | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 48 '36 " S , 73 ° 34' 37" E | |
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The Collins nunatak ( Norwegian Øvreknatten , upper rock ledge ) is a small and isolated nunatak on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It rises about halfway between Landing Bluff and the Statler Hills .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . New mappings are made in 1968 during tellurometer measurements as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him in 1968 after Neville Joseph Collins (* 1925), diesel generator mechanic at Mawson Station (1957, 1960) and Wilkes Station, and involved in the exploration of the Amery Ice Shelf in 1968.
Web links
- Collins Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)