Grossman Nunatakker
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 54 ′ S , 72 ° 53 ′ W | |
The Grossman nunatakkers are a group of about a dozen nunatakkers in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . They extend over a length of 29 km in a northwest-southeast orientation with heights between 1300 m and 1500 m between the Lyon-Nunatakkern and the Sky-Hi-Nunatakkern . The group includes the Smith Nunatakker and the Whitmill Nunatak in the northwest and the Gaylord Nunatak and the Neff Nunatak in the southeast.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped them on the basis of their own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1961 and 1968 and Landsat satellite images from 1973 to 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1994 after Charles Grossman, Head of the graphics department for the creation of special maps for the USGS and specialist in the creation of maps over Antarctica .
Web links
- Grossman Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grossman Nunataks on geographic.org (English).