Murdoch Nunatak
| Murdoch Nunatak | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 1 ′ S , 60 ° 3 ′ W | |
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The Murdoch Nunatak is a 320 m high island off the Nordenskjöld coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula , which was also described as Nunatak . It is located 5 km northeast of Donald Nunatak in the group of the Seal Islands .
It was mapped in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which named it after William Gordon Burn-Murdoch (1862-1939), ship's doctor and artist on the whaler Balaena on the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892-1893).
Web links
- Murdoch Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murdoch Nunatak on geographic.org (English)