Murdoch Nunatak
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Murdoch Nunatak is a nunatak
3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Donald Nunatak
in the Seal Nunataks group, off the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula
. First charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947, and named by them for W.G. Burn Murdoch.
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...
3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Donald Nunatak
Donald Nunatak
Donald Nunatak is a nunatak 1.5 nautical miles north of Gray Nunatak in the Seal Nunataks group, off the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Charted in 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold, and named by him for Dr. C.W. Donald, ship's doctor and naturalist on the Active, one...
in the Seal Nunataks group, off the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....
. First charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947, and named by them for W.G. Burn Murdoch.