Geikie Nunatak

Geikie Nunatak
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height	1100 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 23 '50 " S , 25 ° 49' 42" W Coordinates: 80 ° 23 '50 " S , 25 ° 49' 42" W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Geikie nunatak is a 1,100 m high nunatak in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range it rises 5 km west of Mount Absalom at the southwest end 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 it in 1972 after the British geologist James Geikie (1839-1915).

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