Maris Nunatak
| Maris Nunatak | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 73 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Maris Nunatak is a small nunatak on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It rises 3 km east-northeast of the Whisnant Nunatak at a confluence of the Rogers Glacier in the Amery Ice Shelf .
The American geographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it in 1952 using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). He named it after Roscoe Lewis Maris (1918-1952), who was involved in the Highjump reconnaissance flights to create aerial photographs between 14 ° and 164 ° east longitude.
Web links
- Maris Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maris Nunatak on geographic.org (English)