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Bubnoffnunatakker

Place ID: 1975
Name ID: 106827

Feature type: Nunatak (2b)

Origin

This name originates from Germany. It is part of the Germany Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A group of N-S aligned nunataks W of Mount Wegener, Read Mountains, Shackleton Range, Coats Land. Named during a 22 nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition 1976/77 (with participation of GDR scientists) to the Shackleton Range;

Named For

Serge von Bubnoff (1888-1957), German geologist, Professor at the University Greifswald and the Humboldt University Berlin.

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Comments

Published by Paech, H.-J. : Neubenennung einer Nunatak-Gruppe im Shackleton Range, Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften (Journal for the Geological Sciences), 7 (1979), 1, p. 9. A letter (dated 1985-JUN-26) addressed to Alfred-Wegener-Institut providing the name for transfer into the Database of German-language Antarctic place names. Factually checked and approved by Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN) (German PCGN) on 1988-OCT-12; finally approved by German National Committee of SCAR on 1989-MAR-28.

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