Sullivan Nunatak

Sullivan Nunatak
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location	Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica
Mountains	Geologists Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 82 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E

The Sullivan nunatak is a long and narrow nunatak in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises 3 km east of the southern end of the Wellman Cliffs in the Geologists Range in the Transantarctic Mountains .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it using tellurometer measurements and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the American geologist James G. Sullivan, who lived in the Antarctic winter of 1961 and the Summer season from 1961 to 1962 worked for the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Station .

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