Maish nunatak
| Maish nunatak | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hudson Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 99 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Maish Nunatak is a Nunatak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 8 km west-southwest of Mount Moses in the center of the Hudson Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1960 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after F. Michael Maish, ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in 1967, who 1969 worked as an exchange scientist on the Soviet Vostok station .
Web links
- Maish Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maish Nunatak on geographic.org (English)