Newsham Nunatak

Newsham Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Newsham Nunatak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 18830
Name ID: 138339

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An isolated nunatak on the eastern side of Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land, situated between Stepup Col to the west-south-west and Cain Nunatak to the north-east. It is T-shaped, about 700 m by 700 m and has a summit height of 614 m. Named for Dr Kevin Newsham, a British Antarctic Survey terrestrial ecologist and Principal Investigator for a research project which visited and sampled the site in January 2008.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
63° 33' 32.0" S
-63.55889°
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Longitude:
57° 49' 25.0" W
-57.82361°
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Altitude:
614 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

request by Adrian Fox, June 2018

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
9-Oct-2015

Related information

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