Goodwin Nunatakker
| Goodwin Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 38 ′ S , 161 ° 31 ′ E | |
The Goodwin nunatakkers are an isolated group of nunataks in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Transantarctic Mountains they rise 16 km west of the Marshall Mountains on the south side of the Walcott Firnfield .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the geomagnetic and seismologist Michael L. Goodwin, who worked at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1960 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Goodwin nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Goodwin Nunataks on geographic.org (English)