Madigan Nunatak
| Madigan Nunatak | ||
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| location | George V Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 143 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Madigan nunatak is an isolated nunatak in the East Antarctic Georg V country . It rises from the Antarctic Ice Sheet 29 km south of Cape Gray .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Mawson named him after Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889-1947), meteorologist on this research trip .
Web links
- Madigan Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Madigan Nunatak on geographic.org (English)