Kelly Nunatakker
| Kelly Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 17 ′ S , 141 ° 44 ′ W | |
 Topographic map with the Clark Mountains and the Kelly Nunatakkern (top right) |
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The Kelly Nunatakker are a group of up to 1221 m high Nunatakkern in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Ford Ranges they mark the eastern foothills of the Clark Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after John David Kelly, ionospheric physicist of the United States Antarctic Research Program at Byrd Station in 1968.
Web links
- Kelly Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kelly Nunataks on geographic.org (English)