Lindqvist Nunatak

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Lindqvist Nunatak
height 1470  m
location Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 38 ′ 20 ″  S , 20 ° 37 ′ 54 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 38 ′ 20 ″  S , 20 ° 37 ′ 54 ″  W
Lindqvist-Nunatak (Antarctica)
Lindqvist Nunatak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Lindqvist Nunatak is a 1470  m high nunatak in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range, it rises 10 km south of the Chevreul Cliffs in the eastern section of the Shotton snowfield .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy ; the British Antarctic Survey surveyed the formation between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the Swedish inventor Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862-1931) who developed the Primus stove in 1892 .

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