Nausea Knob
| Nausea Knob | ||
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| height | 3633 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Nausea Knob (English for nausea knob ) is a prominent protrusion of jumbled lava formations on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises at an altitude of 3,633 m on the northwest slope of the active summit crater of Mount Erebus .
In the 1970s there was a camp site for scientists working on Mount Erebus. It is named after the fact that many of these scientists suffered from nausea due to exposure to high altitude.
Web links
- Nausea Knob in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nausea Knob on geographic.org (English)