Fitzgerald Nunatakker
| Fitzgerald Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Napier Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 15 ′ S , 52 ° 49 ′ E | |
The Fitzgerald nunataks are a group of three isolated nunataks in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They tower 3 km north of Mount Codrington at the northwest end of the Napier Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who named them Veslenutane (Norwegian for small peaks ), mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Australian cartographers refined this mapping using aerial photographs made in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them after Brigadier Lawrence John Fitzgerald (1903–1988), head of the Australian Army's geodetic surveying units from 1942 to 1960.
Web links
- Fitzgerald Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fitzgerald Nunataks on geographic.org (English)