Loren Nunatakker
| Loren Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 36 ′ S , 53 ° 47 ′ W | |
The Loren nunatakker are a series of low nunatakkers in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains they rise 5 km east of the Rivas Peaks .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1968 after Loren Brown Jr., aircraft electronics technician at Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1958.
Web links
- Loren Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Loren Nunataks on geographic.org (English)