Drury Nunatak
| Drury Nunatak | ||
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| location | Oates Coast , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Drury nunatak is a bare, black and isolated nunatak on the Oates coast of the Victoria Land in East Antarctica . It rises 2.5 km northwest of Reynolds Peak at the head of Lauritzen Bay .
A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions around the Australian polar explorer Phillip Law sighted him on February 20, 1959 from the ship Magga Dan . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him on July 22, 1959 after Alan Campbell-Drury (* 1918), photographer of the Australian Antarctic Division and participant in this research trip .
Web links
- Drury Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Drury Nunatak on geographic.org (English)