Name details

Alexander Nunataks

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1839

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

Two rock outcrops on the Budd Coast, south of the Windmill Islands, just east of Browning Peninsula. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The northern outcrop was used as an unoccupied trigonometrical station by A. McLaren in 1965. Named after N.H. Alexander, USN, photographer's mate on USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 30' 04.5" S
-66.50125°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
110° 39' 05.1" E
110.65142°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
35 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( Wind50k - Windmill Islands 1:50000 Topographic GIS Dataset )
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Jul-1961

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