Name details

Stinear Nunataks

Stinear Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Stinear Nunataks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1713

Feature type: Nunatak

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A group of dark brown nunataks, of different shapes, which occur within an area of 360 square km. They are situated about 280 km SSE of Mawson. Visited by the ANARE southern party, 1954, led by Robert Dovers who named the group after Bruce H. Stinear, geologist at Mawson in 1954.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 42' 00.0" S
-69.70000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
64° 50' 00.0" E
64.83331°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1954
Catalogue id
4993A1
Photographer
Stinear, Bruce

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
ANCA 57/1

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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