Pedersen Nunatak
| Pedersen Nunatak | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 56 ′ S , 60 ° 45 ′ W | |
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The Pedersen Nunatak is a 210 m high island before Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . She was also described as a nunatak . It is the westernmost island in the seal islands group and is located 12 km northeast of Cape Fairweather .
The Pedersen Nunatak was mapped in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which named it after Morten Pedersen, captain of the Norwegian whaler Castor on the whaling expedition (1893-1894) Carl Anton Larsen .
Web links
- Pedersen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pedersen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)