Vickers Nunatak
| Vickers Nunatak | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 176 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Vickers nunatak is a massive and distinctive nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it is located in the upper section of the Shackleton Glacier at a distance of 19 km southeast of Mount Black .
The southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962) named it after Eric Vickers, a radio operator at Scott Base , who was in radio contact with it almost daily during the three-month research work of this team.
Web links
- Vickers Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vickers Nunatak on geographic.org (English)