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Tent Nunatak (67°36′S 65°21′W / 67.600°S 65.350°W / -67.600; -65.350) is a conspicuous pyramidal nunatak marking the south limit of Whirlwind Inlet on the east coast of Graham Land. First seen and photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), in 1940, and described as a "distinctive tentshaped rock nunatak." It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947.

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Tent Nunatak

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Tent Nunatak (67°36′S 65°21′W / 67.600°S 65.350°W / -67.600; -65.350) is a conspicuous pyramidal nunatak marking the south limit of Whirlwind Inlet...

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Ricker Hills

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include the Sheppard Rocks, Thomas Rock, Tent Rock, Brimstone Peak, Outpost Nunataks, Terminal Peak, Griffin Nunatak and Ambalada Peak. 75°37′S 158°38′E...

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Meade Nunatak

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English mountaineer Charles Francis Meade, the designer of the Meade tent. "Meade Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey...

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Whirlwind Inlet

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12 nautical miles (22 km) wide at its entrance between Cape Northrop and Tent Nunatak, along the east coast of Graham Land. Sir Hubert Wilkins discovered the...

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Choyce Point

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-67.700; -65.383) is a headland 3 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Tent Nunatak on the east coast of Graham Land. A rocky bluff rises behind the point...

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Fleet Point

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617; -65.400) is a rocky point 4 nautical miles (7 km) northwest of Tent Nunatak on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The point has a rocky spine...

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Barker Range

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Range)) is a mountain range trending northwest–southeast and including Jato Nunatak, Mount Watt, Mount McCarthy, and Mount Burton, located at the southwest...

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Pioneers Escarpment

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(1881-1975), English mountaineer and designer of the Meade tent. Rocks exposed on the Meade Nunatak experienced two metamorphic overprints around 1700 and...

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Mount Erebus

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77°28′41″S 166°53′17″E / 77.478006°S 166.888183°E / -77.478006; 166.888183 A nunatak rising to about 1,700 metres (5,600 ft) high on the northwest slope of...

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Arctowski Peninsula

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Bluff, Orel Ice Fring, Laussedat Heights, Deville Glacier, Scheimpflug Nunatak, Fliess Glacier (flowing into Neko Harbour) and The Downfall. On the west...

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Charles Francis Meade

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Mount Everest Committee. Meade Nunatak, a hill in the Antarctic, is also named after him. Meade also developed the Meade tent, a design which was extensively...

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Jackson Tooth

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Tooth (80°25′S 23°16′W / 80.417°S 23.267°W / -80.417; -23.267) is a nunatak rising to 1,215 metres (3,990 ft) at the western end of Pioneers Escarpment...

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South Pole

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surrounded by the flags of the original Antarctic Treaty signatory states. The tent was erected by the Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen on its arrival...

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Rothera Research Station

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for the same purpose, but this has now been moved to Anchorage Island. Nunatak was the BAS’s house band. The five person indie rock band is part of a...

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Torres del Paine National Park

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of the appearance of a peninsula of ice, commonly called the Island or Nunatak, that becomes apparent a little more with each year that passes. The eastern...

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Naomi Uemura

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plaque is located in Narsarsuaq in the south of Greenland. The mountain of Nunatak Uemura in Greenland was named in honour of him. Uemura chose the pinnacles...

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Framheim

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travel, avoiding the need to assemble tent-poles and making the job of pitching the tent very simple and quick. The tent also featured a sewn-in floor, which...

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Rudolf Samoylovich

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bay on Novaya Zemlya, an island in Severnaya Zemlya, a peninsula and a nunatak in Antarctica bear Rudolf Samoylovich's name as does a liquified natural...

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Kyle Hills

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Peak. The feature includes a central nunatak that in outline resembles the letter a. A low ridge encloses the nunatak except on the south. Named by Advisory...

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Leslie Whetter

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Australian Antarctic Division suggested he died in the mid-1950s) The Whetter Nunatak, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the north-east of Cape Denison, was named...

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Glossary of climbing terms

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easiest and most frequently used route for ascending and descending a climb. nunatak A mountain or rock formation that protrudes through an ice field. nut A...

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Percy Correll

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as colour photographer. He returned to Adelaide in March 1913. Correll Nunatak is named after him. Correll applied for a number of patents including:...

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Kaloyan of Bulgaria

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Kaloyan's daughter in marriage to the Latin Emperor Henry in 1211. Kaloyan Nunatak Mladjov 2015, p. 295. Curta 2006, pp. 358–359, 379. Vásáry 2005, p. 17...

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Sky Blu

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had an increase in use by BAS ever since. The old field camp at Sky-Hi Nunataks was abandoned soon after, with the weather station finally being removed...

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