Knott Nunatak
| Knott Nunatak | ||
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| height | 750 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 40 ′ 6 ″ S , 69 ° 26 ′ 18 ″ W | |
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The Knott Nunatak is an approximately 750 m high nunatak on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 1.5 km northwest of the northern end of the LeMay Range .
The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after Christopher Edward Knott (* 1944) of the British Antarctic Survey , who worked on Stonington Island from 1974 to 1975 and on Adelaide Island from 1975 to 1976 and was involved in surveying the area around the Nunatak was involved.
Web links
- Knott Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Knott Nunatak on geographic.org (English)