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Hansen Mountains is a large group of nunataks rising to about 300 m (980 ft) above the Antarctic plateau. The mountains are approximately 89 km (55 mi) south of Stefansson Bay and they extend 40 km (25 mi) from northwest to southeast in Kemp Land, East Antarctica. The Hansen Mountains were first mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the 1936–1937 Lars Christensen Expedition. They were named for H.E. Hansen, the Norwegian cartographer who compiled the maps for this and other Norwegian Antarctic expeditions.
Athos Range is the northernmost range in the Prince Charles Mountains of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. The range consists of many individual mountains and nunataks that trend east–west for 40 miles (64 km) along the north side of Scylla Glacier.
On the continent of Antarctica, the Aramis Range is the third range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, situated 11 miles southeast of the Porthos Range and extending for about 30 miles in a southwest–northeast direction. It was first visited in January 1957 by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) southern party led by W.G. Bewsher, who named it for a character in Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.
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All-Blacks Nunataks is a group of conspicuous nunataks lying midway between Wallabies Nunataks and Wilhoite Nunataks at the southeast margin of the Byrd Névé in Antarctica. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960–61) after the well-known New Zealand national rugby union team.
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Melfjellet is a prominent rock outcrop in the eastern part of the Hansen Mountains, Antarctica, about 2 nautical miles (4 km) southeast of See Nunatak. It was mapped and named by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37.
Kjuklingen Nunatak is one of the Dwyer Nunataks, lying 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) east of Mount Gjeita in the Hansen Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped and named Kjuklingen by Norwegian cartographers working from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37.
Lincoln Nunatak is a snow-capped nunatak with a rocky west face, at the end of a ridge running westward from Mount Mangin on Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Flight Lieutenant Warren D. Lincoln, Royal Air Force, a pilot with the British Antarctic Survey Aviation Unit based at Adelaide Station in 1962–63.
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- ↑ "Brusen Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2011-09-23.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Brusen Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
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