June-Nunatak
| June-Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The June Nunatak is the middle three nunatakker in the middle of the Liv Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 4 miles southeast of Mount Wells .
The southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-1962) named him after Harold Irving June (1895-1962), machinist and pilot during the flight of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd to the geographic South Pole in November 1929.
Web links
- June Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- June Nunatak on geographic.org (English)