Higasi-Yamato Nunatak
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 30 ′ S , 36 ° 53 ′ E | |
Higasi-Yamato Nunatak [sic!] ( Japanese 東 や ま と ヌ ナ タ ー ー ク 'Eastern Yamato Nunatakker' ) are two small nunatakkers in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . They tower 40 km east of the Queen Fabiola Mountains .
Japanese scientists took aerial photographs in 1975 and named them based on the Japanese name Yamato Sanmya ( Japanese や ま と 山脈 ) for the Queen Fabiola Mountains.
Web links
- Higasi-Yamato Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)