Mulgrew Nunatak
Mulgrew Nunatak | ||
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height | 1600 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 79 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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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 .
Web links
- Mulgrew Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mulgrew Nunatak on geographic.org (English)