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Atoll Nunataks

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2023
Entity authorityQ4817187 ↗
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Atoll Nunataks (71°21′S 68°47′W) is a group of nunataks on the north side of Uranus Glacier, 3 miles (5 km) west of Mount Ariel, in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were mapped from trimetrogon air photography taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, and from survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1948–50, and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, because of the arrangement of the suntans in a ring, like an atoll.

See also

Adams Nunatak

Hesperus Nunatak

Coal Nunatak

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This article incorporates public domain material from "Atoll Nunataks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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