Horne Nunatakker
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 43 ′ S , 66 ° 46 ′ W | |
The Horne Nunatakker are a group of six isolated Nunatakkern up to 715 m high near the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise 11 km west of George VI Sound on the northern flank of the Goodenough Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after the British geologist Ralph Ross Horne (* 1940), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey on the Adelaide and Stonington Islands from 1964 to 1965 .
Web links
- Horne Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Horne Nunataks on geographic.org (English)