Kaminuma Crag
| Kaminuma Crag | ||
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| height | 1750 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kaminuma Crag is a 1.2 km long, rugged, island-like and 1750 m high nunatak in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range it rises in the highest snow field of Newall Glacier on
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1997 after Katsutada Kaminuma (* 1931) from the National Polar Research Institute of Japan, who worked on the drilling project in the Antarctic Dry Valleys from 1974 to 1976 in two Antarctic summer campaigns , from 1976 to 1977 on the search for Antarctic meteorites and from 1979 to 1987 was responsible for the international program for seismic studies at Mount Erebus ( English International Mount Erebus Seismic Study (IMESS)).
Web links
- Kaminuma Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kaminuma Crag on geographic.org (English)