Blount Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Blount Nunatak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c. 1630m in Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN on 13 January 1956 on a flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and back in a P2V Neptune patrol aircraft, and named after Hartford E. Blount, USN, aviator machinist's mate, Squadron VX, ODF 1956 (NGS map, 1957b; USBGN, 1960, p.1; USGS sheet SU 21-25/14, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3). Nunatak Blant (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The nunatak was rephotographed from the air by USN, 1964-65, and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66 (Huffman and Schmidt, 1966).
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