Sneddon Nunatakker
| Sneddon Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Alexandra Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 17 ′ S , 153 ° 46 ′ W | |
The Sneddon Nunatakkers are a group of Nunatakkers on the Saunders coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . They are 17.5 km east-southeast of the Scott Nunatakker at the northern end of the Alexandra Mountains and tower over the Swinburne Ice Shelf and Sulzberger Bay on the north side of the Edward VII Peninsula .
The Nunatakker are recorded for the first time on map material that was created during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Donald L. Sneddon, an electrical engineer at Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1967.
Web links
- Sneddon nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sneddon Nunataks on geographic.org (English)