Donald Nunatak
| Donald Nunatak | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 5 ′ S , 60 ° 7 ′ W | |
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The Donald Nunatak is an island-like and around 100 m high nunatak off the Nordenskjöld coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.5 km north of Gray Nunatak in the Seal Island group .
It was mapped in 1902 by participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903). Otto Nordenskjöld , leader of the expedition, named him after Charles William Donald (1870-1932), ship's doctor and naturalist on the whaler Active on the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892-1893).
Web links
- Donald Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Donald Nunatak on geographic.org (English)