Minna Hook
| Minna Hook | ||
 Map of Minna Bluff with Minna Hook (still unnamed here) (right) |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Minna Hook (from English hook for German hook ) is a 15 km long and up to 1115 m high peninsula at the southern end of the Scott coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It forms the southeastern branch of the Minna Bluff .
The name was given in 1987 by the New Zealand geologist Anne Catherine Wright-Grassham (* 1954) and was based on that of Minna Bluff. Its namesake is Mary Anne Isabella Caroline "Minna" Markham (1837–?), Wife of Clements Markham , the "gray eminence" of British polar research.
Web links
- Minna Hook in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Minna Hook on geographic.org (English)