Pickering Nunatakker
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 49 ′ S , 68 ° 56 ′ W | |
The Pickering Nunatakker are a group of up to 500 m high Nunatakkern in the east of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise 3 km southwest of Mount Phoebe on the northeast side of the Saturn Glacier .
Aerial photographs of the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth from November 23, 1935 were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1974 based on the naming of the Saturn Glacier after the American astronomer William Henry Pickering (1858-1938), who discovered the Saturn moon Phoebe in 1898 .
Web links
- Pickering Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pickering Nunataks on geographic.org (English)