Haigh-Nunatak
| Haigh-Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Haigh nunatak is a low nunatak in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . It rises 20 km northeast of the Pickering Nunatak on the eastern flank of the mouth of the Lambert Glacier in the Amery Ice Shelf .
Aerial photographs were taken in 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . Soviet geologists examined it in January 1966. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the geophysicist John E. Haigh, who had supported the Soviet geologists in their work.
Web links
- Haigh Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haigh Nunatak on geographic.org (English)