Recess Nunatak

Recess Nunatak
	Topographic map with the recess nunatak (middle right)
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Ford Ranges
Coordinates	76 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 76 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ W

The Recess Nunatak (of English recess , depression ' ) is a small, yet distinctive Nunatak in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Ford Ranges , it looms one mile west of Mount Perkins at the eastern end of the Fosdick Mountains .

Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970. It is named after the fact that the nunatak almost penetrates it due to the action of the wind surrounding ice masses disappear as if in a depression.

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