Machin Nunatak
| Machin Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The machin nunatak is a small and dome-shaped nunatak in Mac-Robertson Land, east Antarctica . In the southern part of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 11 km east of Mount Cresswell .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 and 1960 were used for mapping. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him Douglas Keith Machin (* 1927), a radio operator on Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Machin Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Machin Nunatak on geographic.org (English)