Vesta Nunatakker
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 ′ S , 68 ° 42 ′ W | |
The Vesta Nunatakkers are a group of around 1200 m high Nunatakkers in the east of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They loom between the Grikurov Ridge of the LeMay Range and the Aeolus Ridge of Planet Heights .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1987 based on the naming of other geographical objects in this area, which have names of planets and their moons . It is named after the asteroid (4) Vesta .
Web links
- Vesta Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vesta Nunataks on geographic.org (English)