Westhaven Nunatak
| Westhaven Nunatak | ||
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| height | 2240 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Westhaven Nunatak is a striking nunatak of 2240 m height, which rises 5 km south of the Turnstile Ridge in the north-western part of the Britannia Range about 450 m high from the surrounding polar plateau .
The so-called Darwin Glacier Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) set up a surveying station on the summit of Nunatak in December 1957. The name goes back to its discoverer, Squadron Leader John R. Claydon of the Royal New Zealand Air Force , who identified it as the westernmost rocky outcrop in this part of the Britannia Range.
Web links
- West Haven Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Westhaven Nunatak on geographic.org (English)