Dewar Nunatak
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Nunatak in Graham Land, Antarctica
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Dewar Nunatak (67°20′S 68°15′W / 67.333°S 68.250°W / -67.333; -68.250 ) is a mainly snow-covered nunatak rising to 520 metres (1,700 ft) in the middle of Shambles Glacier, on the east coast of Adelaide Island. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 for Graham J.A. Dewar, a British Antarctic Survey geologist at Adelaide station, 1961–63.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Dewar Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 17 January 2012.
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