Kenney-Nunatak

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Kenney-Nunatak
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
Kenney-Nunatak (Antarctica)
Kenney-Nunatak
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The Kenney nunatak is a distinctive nunatak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises 2.5 km south-southwest of Ugolini Peak in the middle of the Waddington Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after Frank J. Kenney, cartographer of the United States Geological Survey , who between 1991 and 1992 participated in the international GPS campaign at Byrd Station , McMurdo Station and in the Pine Island Bay area was involved.

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