Johnson Nunatakker
| Johnson Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Thiel Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 2 ′ S , 92 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Johnson nunatakker are two isolated nunatakkers in Marie-Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Thiel Mountains they rise 5 km west of Reed Ridge along the northwest flank of the Ford massif .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1962 at the suggestion of the US geologist Arthur B. Ford and the US cartographer Peter Frank Bermel , who jointly led a team from the United States Geological Survey to the Thiel Mountains between 1960 and 1961 . It is named after the geologist Charles G. Johnson, who explored the areas around Beaufort Island and Cape Bird between 1958 and 1959 .
Web links
- Johnson nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Johnson Nunataks on geographic.org (English)