SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Blake Nunataks

Blake Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Blake Nunataks (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 1434
Name ID: 1764

Feature type: Nunatak

Origin

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:

Blake Nunataks (Russia)
Blake Nunataks (United States of America)

Narrative

A group of three low, flat-topped outcrops running in line north-east to south-west between Wilson Bluff and Mount Maguire, Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered in November, 1956, by Flying Officer John Seaton, RAAF, during a photographic flight. Named after J R Blake, auroral physicist at Mawson in 1958.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

74° 10' 36.0" S

-74.17667°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

66° 27' 44.0" E

66.46222°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

©Adrian Corvino 2003

Catalogue id: IA16499
Caption: Photo taken from northern end of Wilson Bluff on the blue ice about 1km north of Geoscince Australia GPS site AUS368. The nunataks are about 15kms away.
Photographer: Corvino, Adrian

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)

Source Identifier:

E133_CIR_432_1X

Source Scale:

1:30000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

22-Jul-1959

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