Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Collins Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Collins Nunatak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak
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:
A small, isolated rock feature, about half way between Landing Bluff and Statler Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Ovreknatten (The Upper Crag). Plotted by ANARE in 1968 during the tellurometer traverse from Larsemann Hills to Reinbolt Hills. Visited in January 1969 by I R McLeod, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains Survey Party, 1969.Named after Neville J Collins, senior diesel mechanic with the ANARE Amery Ice Shelf Party in 1968.
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