Simpson Nunatak
| Simpson Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1165 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 57 '22 " S , 58 ° 52' 54" W | |
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The Simpson Nunatak is a 1165 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 650 m ) high nunatak in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the southern edge of the Aitkenhead Glacier on the Trinity Peninsula .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after Hugh Walter Simpson (* 1931) of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who was involved in exploring the Detroit Plateau in 1957 from the station on Hope Bay .
Web links
- Simpson Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Simpson Nunatak on geographic.org (English)