Wilkins Nunatak' is the northeasternmost of three nunataks. It lies 6 nautical miles (11 km) southwest of Ickes Mountains in coastal Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Melvin L. Wilkins, QM3, U.S. Navy, Quartermaster aboard USS Glacier in exploration of this coast, 1961-62.
Coleman Nunatak is a nunatak located near the head of Berry Glacier, 2 nautical miles (4 km) south of Patton Bluff in Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Richard I. Coleman, United States Antarctic Research Program meteorologist at Byrd Station, 1962.
Nimbus Hills is a rugged line of hills and peaks about 14 nautical miles (26 km) long, forming the southeast part of Pioneer Heights in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration weather satellite, Nimbus, which took photographs of Antarctica from approximately 500 nautical miles (900 km) above earth on September 13, 1964.
Warren Nunatak is a nunatak located 4 nautical miles (7 km) east of Mount Capley, along the east side of the Nimbus Hills in the Heritage Range. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Arthur D. Warren, auroral scientist at Ellsworth Station in 1958.
Swarsen Nunatak is a conspicuous nunatak, largely snow-covered, located 5 nautical miles (9 km) southwest of Mount Jackson in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander Ronald J. Swarsen, U.S. Navy Reserve, Medical Officer at Byrd Station, 1971, and at the South Pole Station, 1973.
Janke Nunatak is an isolated nunatak, 4 nautical miles (7 km) northeast of Carlson Peak in the western Hauberg Mountains, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for John W. Janke, a radioman with the Eights Station winter party in 1964.
Gowan Glacier is a glacier about 15 nautical miles long in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica, flowing north from the vicinity of Cunningham Peak in the Founders Escarpment to enter Minnesota Glacier just east of Welcome Nunatak. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Jimmy L. Gowan, U.S. Navy Medical Corps, officer in charge and doctor at Plateau Station in 1966.
Eley Peak is a small rock peak (2311m) in the northern part of the Soholt Peaks, over-looking the head of Balish Glacier in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Richard G. Eley, a U.S. Navy photographer on flights over Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land, 1965–66 and 1966–67. It was first climbed on December 20, 2013 by Ralf Laier, Pachi Ibarra and Seth Timpano in Alpine style during their traverse of the Soholt Peaks.
The Lister Nunataks are isolated nunataks located in the northern reaches of Priestley Névé, about 15 nautical miles (28 km) south-southwest of the Brawn Rocks, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Larry W. Lister, a helicopter flight crewman with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 during Operation Deep Freeze 1966, 1967 and 1968.
McCrilliss Nunatak is a nunatak marking the north end of the Gierloff Nunataks on the north side of the Wisconsin Range, Horlick Mountains, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for construction electrician Harold L. McCrilliss, a member of the winter parties at Byrd Station in 1959 and South Pole Station in 1964.
Mason Nunatak is a nunatak 1 nautical mile (2 km) long at the northwest end of the Meteorite Hills and the Darwin Mountains of Antarctica. It was named after Brian Harold Mason of the Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., who examined and classified meteorites collected by United States Antarctic Program field parties directed by W.A. Cassidy in seven austral summers, 1977–78 through 1983–84.
The Hutchins Nunataks are a group of nunataks rising to about 1,200 metres (4,000 ft), 12 nautical miles (22 km) north-northeast of Mount Leek, in the Hauberg Mountains of southern Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961–67. The nunataks were visited in December 1977 by a USGS geological party, led by P.D. Rowley, and named after Lieutenant Commander John R. Hutchins, U.S. Navy, the command pilot of an LC-130 aircraft in support of the party.
The Mathis Nunataks are an isolated cluster of nunataks near the head of Arthur Glacier, 8 nautical miles (15 km) east-southeast of Mount Warner, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41) and by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos (1959–65). The group was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Terry R. Mathis, a traverse engineer with the Byrd Station glaciological strain network, summer season (1967–68), and station engineer with the Byrd Station winter party (1968).
The MacDonald Nunataks are two nunataks overlooking the head of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, standing just east of the terminus of Amundsen Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of O'Brien Peak. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for John A. MacDonald, a biologist with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1964.
Spath Crest is a summit rocks rising to about 1,450 m and marking the northwest end of Du Toit Nunataks, Read Mountains, in the Shackleton Range. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1967 and surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) between 1968-71. In association with the names of geologists grouped in the area, it was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Leonard Frank Spath (1882–1957), a British paleontologist and stratigrapher whose study of ammonites made possible the correlation of Mesozoic rocks. Spath was also a paleontologist for the British Museum of Natural History from 1912-57.
Thompson Nunataks are three evenly spaced nunataks which lie 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of Navigator Peak and surmount the central part of White Escarpment in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Russel W. Thompson, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) meteorologist at Wilkes Station, 1963.
Kelley Nunatak is a nunatak on the north side of Leverett Glacier in Antarctica, 12 nautical miles (22 km) northeast of Mount Gould. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Herbert O. Kelley, a radioman with the Byrd Station winter party in 1958.
Lindqvist Nunatak is a nunatak 6 nautical miles (11 km) south of the Chevreul Cliffs, rising to 1,470 metres (4,820 ft) in the eastern part of the Shotton Snowfield, Shackleton Range, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1967 and surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey, 1968–71. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Frans W. Lindqvist, the Swedish inventor of the Primus stove in 1892.
