Marshall Nunatak
| Marshall Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 8 ′ 51 ″ S , 75 ° 46 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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The Marshall Nunatak is an approximately 1000 m high and isolated Nunatak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 15 km east of Schwartz Peak and 37 km east-southeast of FitzGerald Bluffs . The Nunatak is the easternmost of a series of peaks southeast of the Bluffs.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the topography engineer William F. Marshall of the USGS, who from 1967 to 1968 worked in Antarctica .
Web links
- Marshall Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marshall Nunatak on geographic.org (English)