Sverdrup Nunatakker
| Sverdrup Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Carey Range | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 47 ′ S , 63 ° 6 ′ W | |
The Sverdrup Nunatakker are a series of 1800 m high nunatakker in the southeastern Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise up in a west-northwest-east-southeast orientation in the northwest part of the Carey Range .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1966 to 1969. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1978 after the Norwegian oceanographer and oceanographer Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1957), head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1936 to 1948, director of the Norsk Polar Institute from 1948 to 1957 and chairman of the Norwegian Committee of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949-1952).
Web links
- Sverdrup Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sverdrup Nunataks on geographic.org (English)