Wunneburg rock
| Wunneburg rock | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 113 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Wunneburger Rock is an isolated rocky outcrop on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises from the Maumee-Piedmont glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Henry E. Wunneburger Jr. (1933-2002), Koch on the Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1966.
Web links
- Wunneburger Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wunneburger Rock on geographic.org (English)