Tern Nunatak
| Tern Nunatak | ||
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| height | 265 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 6 ′ 4 ″ S , 58 ° 18 ′ 41 ″ W | |
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The Tern Nunatak is a 265 m high nunatak on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises about immediately east of Lussich Cove , a side bay of Admiralty Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it, but left it unnamed. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named it in 1949 after the Antipodean tern ( Sterna vittata , English Antarctic tern ) found here.
Web links
- Tern Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tern Nunatak on geographic.org (English)