Victory Nunatak
| Victory Nunatak | ||
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| height | 360 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 44 '33 " S , 64 ° 23' 4" W | |
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The Victory nunatak is a distinctive, island-like nunatak on the Bowman coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It has three rocky peaks, of which the southernmost at 360 m is also the highest. It rises from the ice mass in the southeast section of Bowman Inlet at a distance of 13 km southeast of the Kay Nunatak and around 5 km northwest of the Calypso cliffs .
The Nunatak was first mapped by WLG Joerg on the basis of aerial photographs taken during an overflight by the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935. Further aerial photos were taken in September 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) and in December 1947 during the US Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The Falklands Island Dependencies Survey carried out a survey in August 1947. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after its appearance, which when viewed from the air reminds of the Morse code "· · · -" for the letter V for "Victory".
Web links
- Victory Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Victory Nunatak on geographic.org (English)