Rambo nunatakker
| Rambo nunatakker | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 57 ′ S , 66 ° 20 ′ W | |
The Rambo nunatakkers are a loose chain of nunatakkers in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . They tower over a distance of around 27 km along the western flank of the Foundation Ice Stream northwest of the Patuxent Range in the Pensacola Mountains .
The area was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and by aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the geologist William L. Rambo, who conducted field research between 1965 and 1966 the Pensacola Mountains.
Web links
- Rambo Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rambo Nunataks on geographic.org (English)
Map sheet Blackburn Nunatak from 1967, Rambo Nunataks in the southwest