Dione Nunatakker
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 56 ′ S , 68 ° 59 ′ W | |
The Dione Nunatakker are a group of Nunatakkers in the southeast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They tower 14 km west of Deimos Ridge at the head of the Saturn Glacier .
Presumably, the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth first sighted this group during his Antarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The aerial photographs taken were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for rough mapping. The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them again in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on March 2, 1961, based on the naming of the Saturn glacier after the Saturn moon Dione .
Web links
- Dione Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dione Nunataks on geographic.org (English)