Hyperion Nunatakker
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 2 ′ S , 68 ° 52 ′ W | |
The Hyperion Nunatakker are a group of about ten around 600 m high Nunatakkern in the southeast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise south of the Saturn Glacier and 13 km west of the Corner Cliffs .
Aerial photographs of the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth from November 23, 1935 were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements in 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 based on the naming of the Saturn glacier after the Saturn moon Hyperion .
Web links
- Hyperion Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hyperion Nunataks on geographic.org (English)