Krasnaya Nunatak
| Krasnaya Nunatak | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Nye Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 49 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Krasnaja Nunatak ( Russian Гора Красная Gora Krasnaja , German 'Red Mountain' ) is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 4 miles south of Alderdice Peak in the Nye Mountains .
The Nunatak got its descriptive name in the course of a Soviet Antarctic expedition at the beginning of the 1960s.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 877 (English).
Web links
- Krasnaya Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krasnaya Nunatak on geographic.org (English)