Fallone Nunatakker
Fallone Nunatakker | ||
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location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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Coordinates | 85 ° 21 ′ S , 142 ° 54 ′ W | |
Leverett Glacier map sheet from 1966, Fallone Nunataks southwest of the center of the northern half of the map |
The Fallone Nunatakker are a 16 km long mountain range from Nunatakkern in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . They loom 10 miles northeast of the Harold Byrd Mountains between the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf on the Gould Coast and the Watson Escarpment .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1967 after Lieutenant Paul R. Fallone Jr., who served in the command post of the United States Navy Support Units in Antarctica in 1962.
Web links
- Fallone nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fallone Nunataks on geographic.org (English)