Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Bates Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bates Nunataks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of isolated nunataks, the highest and most southerly rising to 1731m above sea level in the névé of the Byrd Glacier below the crest of the Polar Plateau.
Discovered by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58). First named by the NZ Antarctic Place Names Committee after James "Jim" Gordon Bates, a member of the TAE, who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary to the South Pole. Amended in 1965 to Nunataks plural, for all three features, in preparation for USGS mapping of the area.
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