Mason Nunatak
| Mason Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mason Nunatak is a 1.5 km long nunatak in the southern East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the northwest end of the Meteorite Hills in the Darwin Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2001 after Brian Mason of the Smithsonian Institution , who examined and classified the meteorites found between 1977 and 1984 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Mason Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mason Nunatak on geographic.org (English)