COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

El nombre corresponde al de Cedomir Marangunic D., geólogo del Instituto Antártico Chileno que tuvo la misión de proponer un programa de investigaciones glaciológicas en el territorio antártico, entre los años 1971 y 1972. Nunatak que se ubica a aproximadamente 7 cables al N del extremo oriental de la caleta Potter en la bahía Fildes, isla Rey Jorge, islas Shetland del Sur.

rising to 340m ENE of Potter Cove, King George Island, was called Nunatak Yamana by AAE after the Argentine naval tugboat Yamana, which carried out hydrographic work in King George Bay (Argentina. MM, NM 54/15.iv.1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.731); photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956 and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-59; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named Florence Nunatak after the sealing ship Florence (Capt. J.W. Buddington, Buddington Peak, q.v.) from New London, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1876-77, during the revival of US southern fur sealing (APC, 1960, p.4; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968). Some of the crew of Florence wintered in Potter Cove in 1877, but only one man survived (Glass Point, q.v.). Nunatak Florens (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.175).

Conspicuous nunatak, 280 m, nearly 2 mi E of the head of Potter Cove in the SW part of King George Island, South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for the sealing vessel which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1876-77 during the revival of United States southern fur sealing. Some of the crew of the Florence wintered at Potter Cove during 1877; only one survived.