Gordon Nunatakker
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 57 ′ S , 63 ° 10 ′ W | |
The Gordon Nunatakker are a group of Nunatakkers in the south-central Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise up on the southern flank of the Mosby Glacier near its head end.
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1966 to 1969. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1978 after the US cartographer and geologist Arnold Lewis Gordon (* 1940) from Columbia University , deputy leader of a 1981 American-Soviet expedition to explore the Polynja in the Weddell Sea ( English Weddell Polynya Expedition , WEPOLEX-81 for short ).
Web links
- Gordon Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gordon Nunataks on geographic.org (English)