Levassor Nunatak
| Levassor Nunatak | ||
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| height | 550 m | |
| location | Trinity Peninsula , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 40 '16 " S , 58 ° 7' 37" W | |
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The Levassor Nunatak (in Argentina Cerro Gancedo ) is an approximately 550 m high and striking horseshoe-shaped nunatak on the Trinity Peninsula in the far north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 1.5 km inland in the middle of the Cugnot Piedmont Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after the French automobile pioneer Émile Levassor (1844-1897). In Argentina, the nunatak has been named after a member of an Argentine Antarctic expedition since 1978.
Web links
- Levassor Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Levassor Nunatak on geographic.org (English)