Helfert Nunatak
| Helfert Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 87 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Helfert Nunatak is a distinctive nunatak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises 24 km west of Mount Sharp .
He was discovered and visited by the so-called Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party , a team mainly to explore the Marie Byrd Land between 1957 and 1958. This named the Nunatak after Norbert Fred Helfert (1935–1974), who worked as a meteorologist on the 1957 Byrd station was operating.
Web links
- Helfert Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Help Nunatak on geographic.org