Holladay Nunatakker
| Holladay Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 31 ′ S , 159 ° 19 ′ E | |
 1968 map showing the Holladay Nunatakker at the mean parallel |
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The Holladay Nunatakkers are a small group of Nunatakkers on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They extend for around 5 km in the center of the peninsula between the foothills of the Tomilin Glacier and the Gillett Ice Shelf .
The area was mapped through the United States Geological Survey and aerial photography from the United States Navy between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the Nunatakker in 1970 after Billy W. Holladay, senior aviation electrical engineer in the US Navy, who was the head of the maintenance team at McMurdo Station as part of Operation Deep Freeze , which was carried out in 1968 .
Web links
- Holladay Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holladay Nunataks on geographic.org (English)