Vulcan Nunatak
| Vulcan Nunatak | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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.
Web links
- Vulcan Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vulcan Nunatak on geographic.org (English)