Lilliput Nunatakker
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 8 ′ S , 62 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Lilliput Nunatakker comprise three 600 to 700 m high Nunatakker on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise 5 km north of the Gulliver Nunatak in a southeast-northwest orientation. The southeast flanks of these nunatakkers are not covered in snow.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in 1947. In the same year aerial photographs were taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after the island of Lilliput from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift from 1726.
Web links
- Lilliput nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lilliput Nunataks on geographic.org (English)