Eckins-Nunatak
| Eckins-Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Eckins nunatak is a small and isolated nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 8 km east of Matador Mountain in the eastern section of the Shackleton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the meteorologist Henry John Eckins, who worked at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1961 .
Web links
- Eckins Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eckins Nunatak on geographic.org (English)