Mauger Nunatak
| Mauger Nunatak | ||
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| height | 2780 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Grosvenor Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 176 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mauger Nunatak is a 2780 m high nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 3 miles northeast of Mount Block in the Grosvenor Mountains .
Participants in a campaign carried out by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition from 1961 to 1962 named him after Clarence Charles Mauger (1892-1963), ship carpenter on the Aurora as a member of the Ross Sea Party as part of the Endurance Expedition (1914-1917) under the Head of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Mauger Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mauger Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 1012-1013 (English).