Lincoln Nunatak
| Lincoln Nunatak | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | The Princess Royal Range | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 26 '43 " S , 68 ° 42' 37" W | |
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The Lincoln Nunatak is an approximately 800 m high and snow-covered nunatak with a rocky western flank on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . In the Princess Royal Range, it rises at the end of a ridge that extends west from Mount Mangin .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after Warren David Lincoln (1924-2004) of the Royal Air Force , pilot of the British Antarctic Survey on the Adelaide Station from 1962 to 1963.
Web links
- Lincoln Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lincoln Nunatak on geographic.org (English)