Gannon Nunatakker
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 43 ′ S , 69 ° 28 ′ W | |
The Gannon Nunatakker are a group of a 750 m high and striking nunatak with double peaks and smaller rocky outcrops on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They loom between the northern end of the LeMay Range and the Lully Foothills .
The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1977. They are named after Anthony E. Gannon (* 1945) of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who worked from 1970 to 1972 as a meteorologist at Halley Station , and in 1972 as general assistant in Grytviken and von 1973 to 1975 worked as a construction worker on Stonington Island and also took part in the BAS surveying work on Alexander I Island in 1973.
Web links
- Gannon Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gannon Nunataks on geographic.org (English)