Riddiford Nunatak
Riddiford Nunatak | ||
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height | 1200 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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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.
Web links
- Riddiford Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Riddiford Nunatak on geographic.org (English)