Smith Nunatakker
| Smith Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Grossman Nunatakker | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 48 ′ S , 73 ° 6 ′ W | |
The Smith Nunatakker are two 1450 m high nunatakker in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . They rise 8 km north-northeast of the Whitmill Nunatak in the northwest part of the Grossman Nunatakker .
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped them based on their own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1961 and 1968 and Landsat satellite images from 1973 to 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1987 after Thomas T. Smith, cartographer of the USGS and member of the survey team for the survey of the Byrd and Darwin glaciers in East Antarctica Victoria Land (1978–1979).
Web links
- Smith Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Smith Nunataks on geographic.org (English)