Hansen Nunatak
| Hansen Nunatak | ||
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| height | 965 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Hansen nunatak is a striking and 965 m high nunatak in the shape of a beehive in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 5 km northeast of Mount Larsen and 5 km northwest of Teall-Nunatak in the middle of the Reeves Glacier near its origin.
The Nunatak was first sighted by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), but it was not until the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) that it was mapped, described, and after the Norwegian zoologist and polar explorer Nicolai Hanson (1870–1899) - albeit in a different spelling - named, a participant of the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900).
Web links
- Hansen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hansen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
- Hansen Nunatak. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand, Fred G. Alberts: Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 151 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 694-695 (English).