Foltz Nunatak
| Foltz Nunatak | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 8 ′ 21 ″ S , 76 ° 20 ′ 2 ″ W | |
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The Foltz Nunatak is an approximately 800 m high nunatak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 1.5 km north of Schwartz Peak .
The nunatak is one of those objects that the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered in November 1935 and photographed from the air. The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1961 to 1968, as well as Landsat surveys between 1973 and 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1987 after the mapping engineer Gary F. Foltz, who was part of the satellite geodesy team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in two Antarctic winter campaigns in 1978 and 1984 .
Web links
- Foltz Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Foltz Nunatak on geographic.org (English)