Cain Nunatak
| Cain Nunatak | ||
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| height | 400 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 32 '51 " S , 57 ° 45' 39" W | |
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The Kain Nunatak ( English Cain Nunatak ) is an approximately 400 m high nunatak in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the more westerly of two isolated nunatakkers on the south side of Broad Valley on the Trinity Peninsula .
The area was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1960 to 1961. It is named after the biblical figure of Cain . The second nunatak to the east was named Abel-Nunatak .
Web links
- Cain Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cain Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
- Cain Nunatak on a topographic map of the Trinity Peninsula, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy