Mulgrew Nunatak

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Mulgrew Nunatak
height 1600  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 79 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 157 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 79 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 157 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Mulgrew-Nunatak (Antarctica)
Mulgrew Nunatak
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Mulgrew Nunatak is a distinctive and around 1600  m high nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains, it rises 6 km east of Tentacle Ridge . Its summit is named Peter Crest .

The team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) mapped and named him. It is named after Peter David Mulgrew (1927–1979), chief radio operator at Scott Base , who accompanied Edmund Hillary on his way to the geographic South Pole during this expedition .

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