Jacobs Nunatak
| Jacobs Nunatak | ||
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| height | 2407 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | MacAlpine Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Jacobs Nunatak is a 2407 m high nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises on the western flank of the MacAlpine Hills and west of the origin of the Sylwester Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Willis Sumner Jacobs (* 1930), a geomagnetologist and seismologist with the United States Antarctic Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1959.
Web links
- Jacobs Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jacobs Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 799 (English).