Kay Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kay 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 500m on S side of Mobiloil Inlet, Bowman Coast, was photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928, by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1937, Figs 1 and 2, p.434), and by RARE, 22 December 1947; shown on a map compiled in 1937 from Ellsworth's photographs (Joerg, 1937, map A facing p.444); called by CAE Punta Patricio Lynch after Patricio Lynch (1824-86), Chilean naval officer and patriot (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947). The feature was named Kay Nunatak after John D. Kay, AGS cartographer, who assisted W.A. Briesemeister (Briesemeister Peak, q.v.) to construct the 1937 map of the area (USHO chart 6639, 1955; APC, 1962, p.18; DOS 610 sheet W 68 64, 1963); surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1958. Punta Patricio Linch [sic], as rejected name (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.221).
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