Camel Nunataks
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The Camel Nunataks are two similar rock nunatak
s rising to 450 metres (1,476.4 ft), 1 miles (1.6 km) apart and 8 miles (12.9 km) north of View Point
, Trinity Peninsula
. The name is descriptive and has been in use amongst Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey personnel at Hope Bay
since about 1959.
Nunatak
A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...
s rising to 450 metres (1,476.4 ft), 1 miles (1.6 km) apart and 8 miles (12.9 km) north of View Point
View Point
View Point is an eastern tip of a promontory, 150 m, forming the west side of the entrance to Duse Bay on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04...
, Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
. The name is descriptive and has been in use amongst Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey personnel at Hope Bay
Hope Bay
Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....
since about 1959.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.