Riddell Nunatakker
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 54 ′ S , 64 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Riddell Nunatakker are a group of low and almost completely covered by ice and snow mountain ridges with exposed peaks (so-called Nunatakker ) in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They rise 8 km northwest of the Anare Nunatakker .
A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the Australian geologist Robert G. Dovers († 1981) discovered it in 1954. It is named after Alfred Davidson Riddell (* 1925), carpenter at Mawson Station in 1955.
Web links
- Riddell Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Riddell Nunataks on geographic.org (English)