Gould Nunatakker
| Gould Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Nye Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 30 ′ S , 51 ° 42 ′ E | |
The Gould Nunatakkers are a small group of Nunatakkers in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They are 29 km southeast of Mount Biscoe .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them in January 1930. Mawson named them after Lieutenant Commander Rupert Gould (1890-1948) of the Royal Navy , cartographer of the Hydrographic Office the British Admiralty . Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1964 were used for their mapping.
Web links
- Gould Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gould Nunataks on geographic.org (English)