Russell Nunatak
| Russell Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Russell nunatak is a solitary and rounded nunatak in the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 10 miles east of the Masson Range and 7 miles southeast of Mount Henderson .
He was first sighted in December 1954 by a team as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions under the direction of Robert George Dovers (1921-1981). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him John Russell in 1955, an engineer at Mawson Station in 1954.
Web links
- Russell Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Russell Nunatak on geographic.org (English)