Foster Nunatak
| Foster Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Manning Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Foster nunatak is a horseshoe-shaped and coastal nunatak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the southern section of the Manning Nunatakker it rises up on the eastern flank of the Amery Ice Shelf .
Aerial photographs of this and the neighboring Nunatakker were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and in 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). Participants of a Soviet Antarctic expedition visited them in 1965. The same applies to an ANARE team in 1969 whose actual target area was the Prince Charles Mountains . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the Nunatak described here after Allan Lawrence Foster (* 1944), an electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1970, who had participated in a glaciological exploration of the Amery Ice Shelf in January of the same year.
Web links
- Foster Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Foster Nunatak on geographic.org (English)