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Bull Nunatak

Nunatak in Graham Land, Antarctica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ4996591 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bull Nunatak (65°5′S 60°23′W) is a nunatak which lies 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Bruce Nunatak in the Seal Nunataks group, off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was first charted in 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld, and named by him for Henrik Johan Bull, leader with Captain Leonard Kristensen of a Norwegian expedition to the Antarctic, 1894–95.

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

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bull Nunatak” as nunatak in Graham Land, Antarctica. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1894—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bull, Nunatak and Graham can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as nunatak in Graham Land, Antarctica. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 25, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4996591. Authority coordinates are -65.083, -60.383. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902 and 1894.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bull Nunatak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.