Dory Nunatak
| Dory Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dory Nunatak is a 1.7 km long Nunatak from sandstone in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range, it rises from the southwestern part of the flight deck firn field 2.5 km southwest of Dotson Ridge .
A team working in this area between 1989 and 1990 as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program named him after a dory . The reason for this name is that the Nunatak appears like a small sailing boat in the middle of the ice masses.
Web links
- Dory Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dory Nunatak on geographic.org (English)