Kay Nunatak
| Kay Nunatak | ||
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| height | 500 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Hitchcock Heights | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 40 ′ 7 ″ S , 64 ° 40 ′ 29 ″ W | |
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The Kay Nunatak is a dark, rocky and around 500 m high nunatak on the Bowman coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the south side of the Mobiloil Inlet and represents the northernmost branch of the Hitchcock Heights .
Aerial photos of the Nunatak were taken during overflights on December 20, 1928 by the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins and on November 23, 1935 by the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1952 after John D. Kay of the American Geographical Society , who was involved in creating the first map of this area based on these aerial photographs.
Web links
- Kay Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kay Nunatak on geographic.org (English)