Passat (Nunatak)

Passat
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height	145  m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Coordinates	71 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 3 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 71 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 3 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  W

The Passat is a 145  m high nunatak on the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 1.5 km northeast of Nunatak Boreas at the mouth of the Schytt Glacier in the Jelbart Ice Shelf .

The Nunatak was discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after the Passat , a Dornier Wal , which Lufthansa made available to the research trip as one of two aircraft.

See also

• List of the geographical objects named by the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39

Web links

• Passat Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Passat Nunatak on geographic.org (English)