Specimen Nunatak
| Specimen Nunatak | ||
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| height | 550 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 58 '38 " S , 66 ° 45' 26" W | |
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The Specimen Nunatak (English for Muster-Nunatak ) is an approximately 550 m high nunatak on the Fallières coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the ice masses of the Swithinbank Glacier about 6 km south of its confluence with Square Bay .
The meteorologist Herbert Grove Dorsey Jr. (1912-1977) and the dog sled driver Joseph Donald Healy (1912-1971) visited him on February 9, 1941 as part of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941). They named it that because it is exemplary of a nunatak.
Web links
- Specimen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Specimen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)