Gratton Nunatak
| Gratton Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1879 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 127 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Gratton Nunatak is an isolated, 1,879 m high and elongated nunatak in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises up on the southern flank of the McCarthy Glacier shortly before its confluence with the Reedy Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after John William Gratton (* 1936) of the Seabees , who in 1962 on the Byrd station was operating.
Web links
- Gratton Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gratton Nunatak on geographic.org (English)