Hamner Nunatak

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Hamner Nunatak
height 1620  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 157 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 157 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Hamner-Nunatak (Antarctica)
Hamner Nunatak

The Hamner Nunatak is a 1620  m high nunatak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 8 km west-northwest of Wise Peak and west of the Warren Range .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after the American biologist Karl Clemens Hamner (1908-1989) from the University of California, Los Angeles , who worked at the McMurdo station from 1960 to 1961 .

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