Sverdrup Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sverdrup Nunataks (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. 1800m at NW end of Carey Range, Black Coast, were photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and surveyed from the ground by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1974-75; in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named after Dr Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1957), Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist; Chief Scientist of the Norwegian North Polar Expedition in the Maud, 1918-25 (Capt. R. Amundsen) and of the Arctic expedition in the submarine Nautilus, 1931 (Sir H. Wilkins); joint Leader, Norwegian-Swedish Expedition to Svalbard, 1934; Director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, Cal., 1936-48; Director, Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1948-57, and Chairman of the International Committee for the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52 (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; APC, 1980, p.5; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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