Melvold Nunatakker
| Melvold Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Grove Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 51 ′ S , 74 ° 9 ′ E | |
The Melvold-Nunatakker are a group of small Nunatakker in East Antarctic Princess Elizabeth Land . In the Grove Mountains , they are 23 km west of Mount Harding .
The nunatakkers were mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Clarence D. Melvold, a radio operator on Mawson Station in 1962.
Web links
- Melvold nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Melvold Nunataks on geographic.org (English)