Sunday nunatak
| Sunday nunatak | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Sunday nunatak is an isolated nunatak in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford massif of the Thiel Mountains, it rises 30 km east-northeast of the Hamilton cliff .
Edward C. Thiel and John Campbell Craddock discovered him on December 13, 1959 during a geophysical traverse flight along the 88th west longitude as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program . Thiel and Craddock named him after Wayne Sonntag from the University of Wisconsin , who was responsible for the logistics on this transverse flight.
Web links
- Sunday Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sunday Nunatak on geographic.org