White Nunatakker
| White Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 46 ′ S , 66 ° 4 ′ W | |
The White-Nunatakker three up to 1200 m high Nunatakker in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, they loom 3 miles north of the northwest tip of the Mackin Table .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1968 after Noah D. White, radio operator at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter 1967.
Web links
- White nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- White Nunataks on geographic.org (English)