Taylor Nunatak
| Taylor Nunatak | ||
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 Topographic map sheet with the Taylor nunatak (bottom, left of center) |
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| height | 1570 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 176 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Taylor nunatak is a large and 1,570 m high nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises on the eastern flank of the Shackleton Glacier immediately south of the confluence of the Dick Glacier .
The southern group of the 1961 to 1962 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the American topography engineer Thomas Edwin Taylor (1923-2008), who worked for the United States Geological Survey at the mouth of the Shackleton Glacier ( 1960–1961 and 1961–1962) and in the Pensacola Mountains (1962–1963).
Web links
- Taylor Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taylor Nunatak on geographic.org (English)