Navajo Butte
| Navajo Butte | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Navajo Butte is a witness mountain made of sandstone with wide bands in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range it rises in the south-central part of the Table Mountain massif .
Alan Sherwood, head of the New Zealand Geological Survey campaign, which ran from 1987 to 1988 , named it after its resemblance to the Navajo sandstone in the US state of Utah .
Web links
- Navajo Butte in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Navajo Butte on geographic.org (English)