Van Hulssen Nunatak
| Van Hulssen Nunatak | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Van Hulssen nunatak is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises at the southern end of the Trillingnutane Nunatakker Group in the Framnes Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Dutchman Frits Adriaan Van Hulssen (1924-2016), a technician at the Mawson station to explore the ionosphere in 1959.
Web links
- Van Hulssen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Van Hulssen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)