Low nunatak
Low nunatak | ||
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height | 450 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Low Nunatak (English for Low Nunatak ) is a 450 m high and 1.5 km long Nunatak in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3 km north of the western end of the Killer Ridge of the Gonville and Caius Range in the middle of the Cotton Glacier . Only 50 m of its total height of 450 m are visible.
The western group led by the British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Low Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Low Nunatak on geographic.org (English)