Laputa Nunatakker
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 9 ′ S , 62 ° 50 ′ W | |
The Laputa Nunatakker are a mountain range of between 500 and 1000 m high nunataks and snow-covered hills with small rocky outcrops in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 10 km northwest of Adie Inlet .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them using aerial photographs of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after the fictional island of Laputa from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift from 1726.
Web links
- Laputa nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Laputa Nunataks on geographic.org (English)