Staack Nunatak
| Staack Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Yee-Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 14 ′ 20 ″ S , 73 ° 21 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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The Staack Nunatak is a Nunatak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 1.5 km west of the Horner Nunatak and is one of a series of scattered and isolated nunatakkers 60 km north of the Merrick Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1967. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Karl J. Staack, who worked as a meteorologist on the Byrd- from 1965 to 1966. Station was active.
Web links
- Staack Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Staack Nunatak on geographic.org (English)