Nakai snow field
| Nakai snow field | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ S , 161 ° 31 ′ E | |
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The Nakai snow field is a 1600 m high snow field in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range , it occupies the saddle between Mount Hercules and Mount Jason .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2004 after the Japanese geophysicist Nobuyuki Nakai from Nagoya University , who was involved in the drilling project in the Antarctic dry valleys from 1973 to 1976 .
Web links
- Nakai Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nakai Snowfield on geographic.org (English)