Luff nunatak
| Luff nunatak | ||
|---|---|---|
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Manning Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
|
||
The Luff Nunatak is a narrow and 5 km long nunatak in the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . In the Manning Nunatak core on the eastern flank of the Amery Ice Shelf, it rises west of the Foster Nunatak .
Aerial photographs of this and the neighboring Nunatakker were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and in 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). Participants of a Soviet Antarctic expedition visited them in 1965. The same applies to an ANARE team in 1969 whose actual target area was the Prince Charles Mountains . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the Nunatak described here after Trevor S. Luff, chief diesel generator mechanic at Mawson Station in 1970, who had participated in a glaciological exploration of the Amery Ice Shelf in January of that year.
Web links
- Luff Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Luff Nunatak on geographic.org (English)