Nolan Pillar
| Nolan Pillar | ||
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| height | 1940 m | |
| location | Thiel Mountains , Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Nolan Pillar ( English ) is a 1940 m high rock spur in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It marks the eastern end of the Thiel Mountains about 3 miles southeast of Smith Knob .
Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford , who jointly led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1961 in the Thiel Mountains, named him after the geologist Thomas Brennan Nolan (1901-1992), seventh director of the survey from 1956 to 1965.
Web links
- Nolan Pillar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nolan Pillar on geographic.org (English)