Figaro Nunatak
| Figaro Nunatak | ||
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| height | 200 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 6 ′ 12 ″ S , 70 ° 44 ′ 35 ″ W | |
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The Figaro Nunatak is an approximately 200 m high and isolated Nunatak in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises at the eastern end of the Mozart Piedmont Glacier .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) were used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on March 2, 1961 based on the naming of the Mozart-Piedmont-Glacier after the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
Web links
- Figaro Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Figaro Nunatak on geographic.org (English)