DesRoches Nunatakker
| DesRoches Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 ′ S , 67 ° 8 ′ W | |
The DesRoches Nunatakker are two nunatakkers stretching in Queen Elizabeth land in West Antarctica . In the southwestern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains they rise 5 km east of the Postel-Nunatak .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1968 after Joseph DesRoches, a meteorologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1967.
Web links
- DesRoches nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- DesRoches Nunataks on geographic.org (English)