Geikie Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Geikie Nunatak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A nunatak 3 mi W of Mount Absalom in the SW end of the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by the BAS, 1968-71. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, named by the UK-APC in 1971 after James Geikie (1839-1915), Professor of Geology, Edinburgh University from 1882, who was one of the first to recognize that multiple glaciations occurred during the Pleistocene period.
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