Luhrsen Nunatak
| Luhrsen Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Helliwell Hills , Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Luhrsen Nunatak is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 5 km south-southeast of Mount Alford at the southeast end of the Helliwell Hills in the Usarp Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Richard H. Luhrsen, assistant to the representative of the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Station from 1967 to 1968.
Web links
- Luhrsen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Luhrsen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)