Friedmann Nunatakker

Friedmann Nunatakker
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
part of	Dyer Plateaus
Coordinates	70 ° 55 ′  S , 65 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 70 ° 55 ′  S , 65 ° 24 ′  W

The Friedmann Nunatakker are a small group of Nunatakkers in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise 10 km southeast of the Braddock Nunatakker on the western edge of the Dyer Plateau .

The United States Geological Survey mapped them in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1976 after the American ornithologist Herbert Friedmann (1900–1987) who wrote a scientific treatise on the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939 –1941) studied Antarctic birds.

Web links

• Friedmann Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Friedmann Nunataks on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedmann, Herbert: "Birds of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-1941." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , Vol. 89, No. 1, 1945, pp. 305-313 ( JSTOR 985340 ).