Postel-Nunatak
| Postel-Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1450 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 52 '59 " S , 67 ° 45' 58" W | |
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The Postel Nunatak is a 1450 m high nunatak in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 13 km southwest of Snake Ridge from an ice step that extends from this ridge in a south-westerly direction.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Philip A. Postel, a meteorologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter 1967.
Web links
- Postel Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Postel Nunatak on geographic.org (English)