Whisnant Nunatak
| Whisnant Nunatak | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 73 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Whisnant Nunatak is a small nunatak on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It rises between the McKaskle Hills and the Maris Nunatak from the mouth of the Rogers Glacier on the east side of the Amery Ice Shelf .
The American geographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it in 1952 using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). He named it after Jackson Runyon Whisnant (1928-1969), who was involved in the Highjump reconnaissance flights to create aerial photographs between 14 ° and 164 ° east longitude.
Web links
- Whisnant Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whisnant Nunatak on geographic.org (English)