Vulcan Nunatak

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Vulcan Nunatak
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Ford Ranges
Coordinates 76 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 76 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  W
Vulcan Nunatak (Antarctica)
Vulcan Nunatak
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The Vulcan Nunatak ( English for Vulkan-Nunatak ) is a nunatak in the form of a remnant of a large and extinct volcanic cone in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd Land . In the Fosdick Mountains of the Ford Ranges, it rises 3 km southeast of Mount Richardson .

The US polar explorer Paul Siple and Stevenson Corey (1906-2000) discovered it on November 28, 1934 during Richard Evelyn Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) . They named it as The Volcano (English for The Volcano ). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names modified this name in 1970.

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