Voight-Nunatak
| Voight-Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Yee-Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 22 ′ 2 ″ S , 72 ° 27 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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The Voight Nunatak is an approximately 1500 m high Nunatak in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 5 km north-northwest of the Tollefson Nunatak as one of the Yee Nunatakker .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1968. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1987 after William M. Voight, USGS cartographer, who between 1974 and 1975 on the Byrd and Siple Station as part of the Ross Ice Shelf Project and at Dome Charlie .
Web links
- Voight Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Voight Nunatak on geographic.org (English)