Teall Nunatak
Teall Nunatak | ||
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height | 1190 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 2 '0 " S , 161 ° 42' 0" E | |
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The Teall Nunatak is a 1190 m high nunatak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises about 5 km southeast of the Hansen Nunatak in the formation zone of the Reeves Glacier .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. It is named after Jethro Teall (1849–1924), a British geologist and petrologist.
See also
Web links
- Teall Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Teall Nunatak on geographic.org (English)
- Teall Nunatak. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 298 (English)