Gierloff Nunatakker
| Gierloff Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 31 ′ S , 129 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Gierloff Nunatakker are a group of Nunatakkers in Marie-Byrd Land in West Antarctica . On the northern flank of the Wisconsin Range in the Horlick Mountains, they rise 13 km northwest of the Lentz Buttress .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using their own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1967 after George Bernhard Gierloff (1934-2008) from the Seabees , construction workers of the wintering teams of Byrd Station in 1961.
Web links
- Gierloff Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gierloff Nunataks on geographic.org (English)