McKinley-Nunatak
| McKinley-Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 170 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The McKinley Nunatak is the southernmost three large nunatakker in the middle of the upper section of the Liv Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 8 km north-northeast of Barnum Peak .
The southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962) named him after Ashley Chadbourne McKinley (1896–1970), photographer during the flight of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd to the geographic South Pole in November 1929.
Web links
- McKinley Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKinley Nunatak on geographic.org (English)