Turret Nunatak
| Turret Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1960 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Turret Nunatak (English for wall tower- Nunatak ) is an elongated and 1960 m high nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains , west of the Cobham Range, rises in the lower section of the Lucy Glacier .
The northern group of a 1961-1962 New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition campaign mapped and named him. It is named after the tower-like cliffs on the south side of the Nunatak.
Web links
- Turret Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turret Nunatak on geographic.org (English)