Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Swartz Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Swartz 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:
Two prominent nunataks, about 1539m high, midway between the northern part of the Worcester Range and Tate Peak, and the south of Skelton Neve.
Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant Philip K. Swartz, Jr., MC, U.S. Navy (USN), officer in charge of the South Pole Station in 1961.
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