Heverley Nunatakker
| Heverley Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | McCuddin Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 33 ′ S , 128 ° 34 ′ W | |
The Heverley Nunatakkers are a small and relatively isolated group of Nunatakkers in Marie-Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the McCuddin Mountains they tower 22 km northeast of the summit of Mount Flint .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1974 after Harry W. Heverley (* 1941), construction worker at McMurdo Station in in 1962 and 1963 and member of the winter team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1971.
Web links
- Heverley nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heverley Nunataks on geographic.org (English)