Racine Nunatak
| Racine Nunatak | ||
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| height | 960 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 136 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Racine Nunatak is a 960 m high nunatak in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises 5 km west of the lower section of the Reedy Glacier and 11 km east-southeast of the Berry Peaks .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Edward J. Racine (1946-2013) of the United States Coast Guard , Crew member on the USCGC Eastwind icebreaker in Operation Deep Freeze in 1967.
Web links
- Racine Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Racine Nunatak on geographic.org (English)