Lampitt Nunatak
| Lampitt Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1800 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 56 '58 " S , 65 ° 52' 27" W | |
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The Lampitt-Nunatak is an approximately 1800 m high Nunatak near the Loubet Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises near the head of Murphy Glacier .
Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1955 to 1957, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey was used for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the Nunatak in 1958 after the British chemist Leslie Herbert Lampitt (1887-1957), who worked as a nutritionist for British polar research expeditions between 1937 and 1957.
Web links
- Lampitt Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lampitt Hill on geographic.org (English)