Riddiford Nunatak

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Riddiford Nunatak
height 1200  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 80 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E
Riddiford-Nunatak (Antarctica)
Riddiford Nunatak

The Riddiford Nunatak is an approximately 1200  m high nunatak with a neighboring, lower ledge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Darley Hills of the Churchill Mountains, it rises 4 km west-northwest of the Abercrombie Crests .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Charles Ernest Riddiford (1896-1968), cartographer and typesetter at National Geographic Magazine from 1923 to 1958.

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