Footscrew Nunatak
| Footscrew Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1865 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Footscrew Nunatak is a 1865 m high nunatak in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains it rises 2.2 km southeast of Altar Mountain, southwest of Windy Gully .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1993, like other objects in the area, after a term from geodesy . Name factor is a foot screw ( English foot crew ) which, when the leveling is geodetic measuring instruments use.
Web links
- Footscrew Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Footscrew Nunatak on geographic.org (English)