Correll Nunatak
| Correll Nunatak | ||
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| location | George V Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Correll Nunatak is a Nunatak in the East Antarctic Georg V country . It rises 22 km south of Aurora Peak from the western section of the Mertz Glacier .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Mawson named him after Percy Edward Correll (1892–1974), assistant physicist and mechanic on this expedition.
Web links
- Correll Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Correll Nunatak on geographic.org (English)