Klinck-Nunatak

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Klinck-Nunatak
height 1800  m
location Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 72 ° 3 ′ 30 ″  S , 63 ° 57 ′ 7 ″  W Coordinates: 72 ° 3 ′ 30 ″  S , 63 ° 57 ′ 7 ″  W
Klinck-Nunatak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Klinck-Nunatak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Klinck Nunatak is an approximately 1800  m high and isolated Nunatak in the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It looms between the Blanchard Nunatakkern and the Holmes Hills .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1966 to 1969. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1977 after the construction mechanic Jay Childs Klinck (1943-2011), who worked at Palmer Station in 1970 and in 1973 worked on the Siple station .

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