Wild Nunatakker
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| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 44 ′ S , 99 ° 5 ′ E | |
The Wild Nunatakkers are a small and isolated group of Nunatakkers in Queen Marie Land in East Antarctica . They rise between 0.1 and 0.9 km off the western flank of Denman Glacier across from Jones Ridge .
Namesake is the British polar explorer Frank Wild (1873-1939), head of the west base of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914), who by hoisting the Union Jack and the flag of Australia formally this area in the name of King George V for the Commonwealth of Australia took possession.
Web links
- Wild Nunataks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)