Rils-Nunatak
| Rils-Nunatak | ||
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| height | 125 m | |
| location | Charcot Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 44 ′ 56 " S , 75 ° 15 ′ 11" W | |
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The Rils Nunatak is a 125 m high and 200 m long nunatak on the north coast of the West Antarctic Charcot Island . It looms between Mount Monique and Mount Martine .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered him in January 1910. Aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Geologists of the British Antarctic Survey visited him in 1975. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 2007 after the acronym of the botanist R onald I to L EWIS S mith (* 1942), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey 1964-2002 and discovered a unique flora here in December 1997 .
Web links
- Rils Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)