Freshfield Nunatak

Freshfield Nunatak
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height	1450 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 27 ′ 51 ″ S , 24 ° 53 ′ 25 ″ W Coordinates: 80 ° 27 ′ 51 ″ S , 24 ° 53 ′ 25 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Freshfield Nunatak is a 1450 m high and isolated nunatak in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range it rises southeast of the Herbert Mountains .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy ; the British Antarctic Survey carried out measurements of the Nunatak between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1972 after the British geographer and mountaineer Douglas William Freshfield (1845-1934), who was active in the Caucasus and the Himalayas and from 1914 to 1917 President of the Royal Geographical Society .

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