Meade Nunatak

Meade Nunatak
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height	990 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 22 '14 " S , 21 ° 57' 54" W Coordinates: 80 ° 22 '14 " S , 21 ° 57' 54" W

The Meade Nunatak is a 990 m high nunatak in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range, it rises 3 miles north of Blanchard Hill in the Pioneers Escarpment .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy ; the British Antarctic Survey carried out measurements of the Nunatak between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the British mountaineer Charles Francis Meade (1881-1975) who had developed an expedition tent , the so-called Meade tent .

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