Hague Nunatakker
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 2 ′ S , 78 ° 16 ′ W | |
The Haag Nunatakker are a group of three consecutively arranged and up to 1150 m high Nunatakkern with an almost north-south orientation on the Zumberge coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . They rise about 110 km west-southwest of Mount Hassage and about 135 km east of Mount Ulmer in the Fowler Ice Rise southwest of the Evans Ice Stream . The middle and at the same time the highest as well as the southernmost of them have un-iced rocky outcrops, while the smallest and northernmost is completely covered by snow.
The formation was discovered during the US Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). Expedition leader Finn Ronne named it Mount Haag . It is named after Joseph Haag Jr. (1895–1958), director of Todd Shipyards in New York City , where the ship was built for this research trip. The analysis of aerial photographs of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron from 1966 showed that it was not a mountain, but a nunatakker group. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names made a corresponding adjustment to the name in 1978.
Web links
- Haag Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hague Nunataks on geographic.org (English).