Spear Nunatak
| Spear Nunatak | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 124 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Spear Nunatak is a nunatak in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises 5 km south of the Strickland Nunatak as the southernmost protrusion on the eastern flank of the head end of the Reedy Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Milton B. Spear (1937–1998), a construction electrician on the Byrd- Station in 1962.
Web links
- Spear Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spear Nunatak on geographic.org (English)