Gemini nunatakker
| Gemini nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 42 ′ S , 176 ° 38 ′ W | |
The Gemini Nunatakker are two distinctive nunatakkers of similar height and appearance in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They tower southeast of Mount Cole near the west face of Shackleton Glacier .
Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), among other things participant in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and leader of the expedition to the Shackleton Glacier carried out by Texas Tech University from 1962 to 1963, named her after the constellation Gemini ( English Gemini ).
Web links
- Gemini nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gemini Nunataks on geographic.org (English)