Lacroix Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lacroix 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:
Ridge of terminal moraine, about 1 mi long and 75 m high, standing immediately S of a small zone of low rocky ridges which protrude above the ice-covered point 2 mi SW of Cape Margerie, Adelie Coast. Discovered in 1931 by BANZARE personnel on the believing it to be a 300-m rock peak. Named by Mawson after French mineralogist Alfred Lacroix (Mount Lacroix, q.v.). Photographed from the air by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. Surveyed by the FrAE, 1949-51, which established an astronomical control station near its center.
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