MacDonald Nunatakker
| MacDonald Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 27 ′ S , 157 ° 38 ′ W | |
 1966 Amundsen Coast map , MacDonald Nunataks near center of map |
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The MacDonald nunatakker are two nunatakkers on the Amundsen coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They rise east of the confluence of the Amundsen Glacier in the Ross Ice Shelf and 8 km west of O'Brien Peak in the Transantarctic Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1967 after John A. MacDonald, biologist at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1964.
Web links
- MacDonald nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- MacDonald Nunataks on geographic.org (English)