Dingle Nunatak
| Dingle Nunatak | ||
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| location | Snow Hill Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 31 '15 " S , 57 ° 24' 55" W | |
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The Dingle nunatak is a nunatak on Snow Hill Island south of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . He breaks through 2.8 kilometers south of the Day Nunatak the ice cap of the island.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1995 after Richard Vernon Dingle (* 1943), chief geologist of the British Antarctic Survey , who studied the paleoclimatological changes in the Antarctic on James Ross Island between 1994 and 1995 .
Web links
- Dingle Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dingle Nunatak on geographic.org (English)