Half Dome Nunatak
| Half Dome Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Half Dome Nunatak (English for half- dome nunatak ) is a nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains, it rises 3 km south of the Cobham Range at the mouth of the Lucy Glacier and the Nimrod Glacier .
Scientists from a 1961 to 1962 campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it descriptive. The nunatak is characterized by a rounded shape on one side and abruptly sloping cliffs on the other.
Web links
- Half Dome Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Half Dome Nunatak on geographic.org (English)