Pollux-Nunatak
| Pollux-Nunatak | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Seal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 5 ′ S , 59 ° 54 ′ W | |
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The Pollux nunatak is an island-like nunatak of up to 110 m in height off the North Skjöld coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 3 km northwest of Robertson Island in the Seal Island group .
Its existence was suspected by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and confirmed in 1953. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 in connection with the 7 km south-southwest located Castor-Nunatak after the Dioscuri Castor and Pollux from Greek mythology .
Web links
- Pollux Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pollux Nunatak on geographic.org (English)