Evensen Nunatak
| Evensen Nunatak | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 59 ′ S , 60 ° 23 ′ W | |
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The Evensen Nunatak is an approximately 160 m high island off the east coast of Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula , which was also described as Nunatak . It is located 4 km northwest of Jason Island in the group of Seal Islands .
The island was mapped in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which named it after Karl Julius Evensen (1851–1937), captain of the whaler Hertha in the whaling expedition (1893–1894) Carl Anton Larsen .
Web links
- Evensen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Evensen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)