Mount Nubian
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 Topographic map with Black Island (top, right half of the picture) and Mount Nubian |
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| location | Black Island , Ross Archipelago , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Nubian (English for Nubierberg ) is a mountain peak made of shiny, deep black basalt on Black Island in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It rises 1.5 km southeast of Mount Aurora at the end of a mountain ridge consisting of lava rock .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it because of its color after the Nubians , a black African ethnic group in what is now Sudan .
Web links
- Mount Nubian in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Nubian on geographic.org (English)