Wilhoite Nunatakker
| Wilhoite Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 39 ′ S , 154 ° 55 ′ E | |
 Map sheet Wilhoite Nunataks from 1967, the Wilhoite Nunatakker south of the center of the actual map, surrounded by the Wallabies , All-Blacks , Mizar and Lonewolf Nunataks |
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The Wilhoite Nunatakker are a group of dark nunatakkers in the Transantarctic Mountains . They are located near the polar plateau around 19 km southwest of the All-Blacks-Nunatakker .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1965 after the weather ship USS Whilhoite the United States Navy for the support of flights between New Zealand and Antarctica as part of Operation Deep Freeze of the year 1961st
Web links
- Wilhoite Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilhoite Nunataks on geographic.org (English)