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Bon Docteur Nunatak, also known as Good Doctor Nunatak, is a small coastal nunatak, 28 metres (92 ft) high, standing at the west side of the Astrolabe Glacier Tongue, 400 m (1,300 ft) south of Rostand Island in the Geologie Archipelago of Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1952–53, and named for Dr Jean Cendron, the "good doctor", medical officer and biologist with the French Antarctic Expedition, 1951–52.
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Webb Nunataks is a group of nunataks 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west of Madey Ridge in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Dalton Webb, electronics engineer with Raydist Corporation, a member of the Electronic Test Unit in the Pensacola Mountains, 1957–58.
DeWitt Nunatak is a nunatak, 1,295 metres (4,250 ft) high, along the face of an ice escarpment 7 nautical miles (13 km) west of Snake Ridge, in the Patuxent Range, Pensacola Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Steven R. DeWitt, a meteorologist at Palmer Station, winter 1966.
Eastface Nunatak is a small nunatak about 11 nautical miles (20 km) south of Mount Morning on the Ross Dependency's Hillary Coast in Antarctica. It is ice covered with a conspicuous rock face on the east side. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and Navy air photos, and was given this descriptive name by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1963.
The Fitzsimmons Nunataks are a group of small nunataks about 27 nautical miles (50 km) east-northeast of Welcome Mountain of the Outback Nunataks and 8 nautical miles (15 km) southeast of the Helliwell Hills, Victoria Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–64, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for John M. Fitzsimmons, a biologist at McMurdo Station, Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island, 1965–66. This geographical feature lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
The Gould Nunataks are a small group of nunataks about 18 nautical miles (33 km) southeast of Mount Biscoe in Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were discovered in January 1930 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson, who named them "Gould Nunatak" in the singular, after Lieutenant Commander R.T. Gould, Royal Navy, of the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty, who worked on the British Admiralty South Polar Chart. They were plotted as a group by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from air photos in 1964, and so renamed in the plural.
Minaret Nunatak is a minaret-like nunatak, 2,115 metres (6,940 ft) high, standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) west of Burkett Nunatak, in the Monument Nunataks of Antarctica, and 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of Mount VX-6. It was named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition of 1962–63.
The McLeod Nunataks are an isolated group of nunataks 35 nautical miles (65 km) southeast of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were photographed in 1956 by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) aircraft, and were first visited in December 1958 by an ANARE dog-sledge party, with the position fixed by G.A. Knuckey. The group was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for I.R. McLeod, a geologist at Mawson Station in 1958, and a member of the ANARE dog-sledge party.
Haskill Nunatak is an elongate nunatak, 1,710 metres (5,610 ft) high, standing 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) west of Dyrdal Peak in the southern Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Robert E. Haskill, a radioman at Ellsworth Station in the winter of 1957.
Hutchison Hill is a hill 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) northeast of Lampitt Nunatak on Avery Plateau, Graham Land, Antarctica. This hill is one of the few features on the plateau that is readily visible from Darbel Bay. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Sir Robert Hutchison, an English physician who made outstanding contributions to knowledge of the scientific principles of nutrition.
Salient Nunatak is a prominent cusp-shaped nunatak which stands out from the north side of Ohio Range, Horlick Mountains, 3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Mount Glossopteris. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1958–59. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) following geological work in the area by a New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) field party, 1983–84.
The Horne Nunataks are a group of six nunataks in relative isolation, located on the north side of Goodenough Glacier, about 7 nautical miles (13 km) inland from the west coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ralph R. Horne, a British Antarctic Survey geologist at the Adelaide and Stonington Island stations in 1964–65.
References
- ↑ "Brusilov Nunataks". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2011-09-23.
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