Whetter-Nunatak
| Whetter-Nunatak | ||
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| location | George V Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 143 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Whetter Nunatak is a small nunatak in the East Antarctic George V country . It rises 13 km east-northeast of Cape Denison on the east bank of Commonwealth Bay .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Mawson named him after Leslie Hatton Whetter (1888–1955), the New Zealand surgeon on this research trip .
Web links
- Whetter Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whetter Nunatak on geographic.org (English)