Cheeks Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cheeks 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. 1300m, WNW of Merrick Mountains, was surveyed on USGS Antarctic Peninsula Traverse, 1961-62, and photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67; named after Noble L. Cheeks, USN, aviation electronics technician and a member of the airborne party that set up "Camp Sky-Hi" (later "Eights Station") in 1961 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.3; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981).
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