Nautilus Head
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 38 ′ S , 67 ° 7 ′ W | |
| location | Pourquoi Pas Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Bourgeois Fjord | |
The Nautilus Head is a 975 m high point of land on the northeastern extension of the Pourquoi-Pas Island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
A first survey of the cape was made in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Another survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey followed in 1948 . It is named after the fictional submarine Nautilus from the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by the French writer Jules Verne .
Web links
- Nautilus Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nautilus Head on geographic.org (English)