Vince-Nunatak
| Vince-Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Vince nunatak is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises from the ice masses of the southern part of the Wilson Piedmont Glacier 2.5 km west of Cat Nunatak and 5 km west of Hogback Hill .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 1994 in memory of the sailor George Vince (1879-1902), who on March 11, 1902 in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott because of wearing Treadless fur boots on an icy cliff not far from the base camp on the Hut Point Peninsula lost their grip and disappeared without a trace when they fell into the sea.
Web links
- Vince Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vince Nunatak on geographic.org (English)