McDonough Nunatakker
| McDonough Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 8 ′ S , 179 ° 59 ′ E | |
The McDonough nunatakers are a small group of isolated nunatakers in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They rise 8 km west of Mount Rosenwald on the southern edge of the Queen Maud Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after John W. McDonough, ionospheric physicist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1962.
Web links
- McDonough nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McDonough Nunataks on geographic.org (English)