Wilds Nunatak
| Wilds Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Outback Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Wilds Nunatak is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3 km west of the southern end of Frontier Mountain in the group of the Outback Nunatakker .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1969 after Ronald F. Wilds, aircraft engineer of the VX-6 flight squadron at McMurdo Station in 1966.
Web links
- Wilds Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilds Nunatak on geographic.org (English)