Davis-Nunatakker
| Davis-Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 37 ′ S , 166 ° 36 ′ E | |
The Davis nunatakkers are a small group of nunatakers in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . As the southern forerunner of the Dominion Range, they rise about 5 km northwest of Mount Ward in the Transantarctic Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Ronald N. Davis of the United States Antarctic Program , a geophysicist and seismologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the winter of 1963.
Web links
- Davis nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Nunataks on geographic.org (English)