Vanguard Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Vanguard 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 715 m at N end of Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, was probably the feature sighted by the Grupo Aeronaval UT 78 on the first Argentine flight to the South Pole in January 1962, mapped in c.82°35'S 46°02'W and called Nunatak CTA-15, from the registration number of one of the two aircraft on the flight (Butler Rocks, q.v.) (Argentina. MM, NM 21/1.xi.1964; Pierrou, 1970, p.275); photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named Vanguard Nunatak from its position at the N end of the range (USGS sheet SU 21-25/10, 1969; APC, 1974, p.6).
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