Dziura Nunatak
| Dziura Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1480 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Helliwell Hills , Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Dziura Nunatak is a 1480 m high and ice-free Nunatak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . At the northwest end of the Helliwell Hills, it rises 3 km northwest of Mount Remington .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the American meteorologist Charles Stanley Dziura (* 1930), who worked from 1967 to 1968 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Dziura Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dziura Nunatak on geographic.org (English)