Goodspeed Nunatakker
| Goodspeed Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 0 ′ S , 61 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Goodspeed nunatakkers are a group of three ranks of nunatakkers in Mac-Robertson Land, East Antarctica . They rise east-west over a length between 15 and 25 km at the western end of the Fisher Glacier and around 50 km west-northwest of Mount McCauley in the Prince Charles Mountains .
The Nunatakker were first sighted in January 1958 by seismologists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1956-1957) under the direction of Keith Benson Mather (1922-2003). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Morley James Goodspeed (* 1927), a geophysicist at Mawson Station in 1957.
Web links
- Goodspeed nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Goodspeed Nunataks on geographic.org (English)