La Grange Nunatakker
| La Grange Nunatakker | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Beney ( 1000 m ) | |
| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Shackleton Range | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 17 ′ S , 28 ° 7 ′ W | |
The La Grange Nunatakker are a group of dispersed nunatakkers in the East Antarctic Coatsland . They are distributed starting from the mouth of the Gordon Glacier over 35 km on the north side of the Shackleton Range . They include Mount Beney , the Butterfly Knoll , The Dragons Back , Mount Etchells , Mathys Bank , the Morris Hills , the True Hills, and the Wiggans Hills .
They were measured in 1957 by participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs . The United States Navy took aerial photographs in 1967. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the South African meteorologist Johannes Jacobus La Grange (1927-1999), a participant in the above-mentioned expedition.
Web links
- La Grange nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- La Grange Nunataks on geographic.org (English)