Lepley Nunatak
| Lepley Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 90 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Lepley Nunatak is an island-like nunatak on the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 3 km southwest of Dendtler Island in the middle of the Abbot Ice Shelf near its eastern end.
It was discovered on February 9, 1961 during helicopter flights from the icebreakers USS Glacier and USCGC Staten Island . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after the oceanographer Larry K. Lepley of the United States Hydrographic Office , who had to bivouac here with three other scientists between February 12 and 15, 1961 as a result of a heavy snow storm .
Web links
- Lepley Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lepley Nunatak on geographic.org (English)