Rankine skirt

Rankine skirt
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height	600 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Dufek Massif , Pensacola Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 24 ′ 12 ″ S , 50 ° 31 ′ 24 ″ W Coordinates: 82 ° 24 ′ 12 ″ S , 50 ° 31 ′ 24 ″ W

The Rankine skirt is an approximately 600 m high Nunatak in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . At the northern end of the Dufek massif in the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 1.5 km north of the Cox Nunatak .

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 David Ford Rankine Jr. (* 1942), photographer of the VX-6 flight squadron in Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.

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