Tailend Nunatak
| Tailend Nunatak | ||
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| height | 535 m | |
| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Theron Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 47 '5 " S , 26 ° 37' 46" W | |
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The Tailend Nunatak is a 535 m (according to British data about 550 m ) high nunatak in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It rises at the northern end of the Theron Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains .
Participants of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs him mapped between 1956 and 1957. Its name it owes to its location on the "tail end" ( English TailEnd ) of the Theron Mountains.
Web links
- Tailend Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tailend Nunatak on geographic.org (English)