Dunbar Head

	Dunbar Head
	Geographical location
Coordinates	78 ° 38 ′ S , 164 ° 10 ′ E Coordinates: 78 ° 38 ′ S , 164 ° 10 ′ E
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast	Hillary coast
Waters	Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea

The Dunbar Head is a rocky and 200 m high headland on the northern Hillary Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It protrudes 17.5 km southeast of Mount Morning halfway between the Eastface Nunatak and the Birthday Bluffs into the Ross Ice Shelf .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the headland in 1999 after Nelia W. Dunbar (* 1962) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro , New Mexico , who carried out geological studies on Mount Erebus , in the Allan Hills , on Mount Takahe and in had operated the Crary Mountains .

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