Cruise nunatak

Cruise nunatak
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height	1500 m
location	Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Mawson Escarpment
Coordinates	72 ° 59 '33 " S , 69 ° 3' 59" O Coordinates: 72 ° 59 '33 " S , 69 ° 3' 59" O

The Cruise Nunatak is an icy nunatak around 1500 m high in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 19 km east of the Hay Hills in Mawson Escarpment .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1956 and 1960 during campaigns by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1973 after John Oliver Cruise (* 1936), who was involved in the establishment of a radiation laboratory at Mawson Station in 1971 .

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