Hertha Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hertha 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:
one of the Seal Nunataks (q.v.), Oscar II Coast, rising to 225m above Larsen Ice Shelf, was discovered and roughly charted by Larsen, 11 December 1893; named Hertha-Insel by J. Petersen after the Norwegian sealing ship Hertha (Capt. C.J. Evensen, Cape Evensen, q.v.), of NWE, 1893-94 (Petersen, 1895a, p.264). IÎle Hertha (Gerlache, 1900a, map p.411). Hertha Island (BA chart 1238, iii.1901). The feature was further surveyed from the ground by SwAE, 8 October 1902, and found to be a nunatak. Hertha-Nunatak, Nunatak Hertha, Herthas Nunatak (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol.1, p.239; 1904a, Del. 1, end map; 1904c, map p.232-33). Hertha Nunatak (BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921; APC, 1955, p.11; DOS 610 sheet W 65 58, 1961). Roca Hertha (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Nunatak Hertha (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.152).
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