Gibbon nunatak
| Gibbon nunatak | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wisconsin Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 127 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The gibbon nunatak is an isolated nunatak in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . On the north side of the Wisconsin Range in the Horlick Mountains, it rises eight miles north of the Lentz Buttress on the western flank of the Davisville Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Thomas L. Gibbon (* 1928), construction vehicle driver on the Byrd- Station in the Antarctic winter of 1959.
Web links
- Gibbon Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gibbon Nunatak on geographic.org (English)