Kintner Nunatak
| Kintner Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1450 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sky-Hi-Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Kintner Nunatak is a 1450 m high nunatak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . He is the southernmost of the Sky-Hi-Nunatakker .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names erroneously named him in 1987 as Kinter Nunatak after the American physicist Paul M. Kintner Jr. (1946-2010) from Cornell University , who between 1980 and 1981 on the Siple station investigated low-frequency radiation and its Interaction performed. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee corrected the spelling in 2002.
Web links
- Kinter Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kinter Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 857 (English).