Darnell Nunatak
| Darnell Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1405 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Darnell Nunatak is a prominent nunatak of 1405 m height in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises 6.5 km northwest of Mount Rummage in the southwest part of the Britannia Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the aircraft machinist's assistant Shepard L. Darnell, a member of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron , who exchanged the aircraft between December 27, 1962 and January 4, 1963 together with six other mechanics Engine of a helicopter that crashed on the Emmanuel Glacier .
Web links
- Darnell Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Darnell Nunatak on geographic.org (English)