Frontier Nunatakker
| Frontier Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 21 ′ S , 88 ° 6 ′ W | |
The Frontier Nunatakker are a small and isolated group of Nunatakkers in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . They are located about 32 km west of the Sentinel Range in the far west of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The Nunatakker were first visited by the American geologist Thomas W. Bastien (1933-2010), head of the team at the University of Minnesota to explore the Ellsworthsgebirge, between 1963 and 1964. Bastien gave them their name because of their peripheral location ( English frontier , border area ).
Web links
- Frontier nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Frontier Nunataks on geographic.org (English).