Recluse nunatak
| Recluse nunatak | ||
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| height | 200 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 24 '58 " S , 70 ° 21' 58" W | |
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The Recluse Nunatak is a 200 m high and isolated nunatak in the western center of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises halfway between Haydn Inlet and the Colbert Mountains from the Handel-Piedmont Glacier .
The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after 1961 its remote geographical location ( English recluse , a hermit ' ).
Web links
- Recluse Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Recluse Nunatak on geographic.org (English)