Lucas Nunatak
| Lucas Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lucas nunatak is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Casey Range of the Framnes Mountains, it rises 1.5 km south of the Woodberry Nunatakker .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited him in April 1962. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him after Frederick Michael Lucas (1924-2006), head of the Mawson station in 1962.
Web links
- Lucas Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lucas Nunatak on geographic.org (English)