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Simpson Nunatak is a nunatak

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...

, 1,165 m, rising 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) northwest of Mount Roberts

Mount Roberts

Mount Roberts or Roberts Peak is a 3,819 foot mountain just east of downtown Juneau, Alaska.Mount Roberts is noted for its accessibility from downtown Juneau and for the Mount Roberts Tramway which carries passengers and tourists from sea level to up the mountain....

, on the south margin of Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel...

, 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...

, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Hugh W. Simpson of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a member of the Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

reconnaissance party from Hope Bay

Hope Bay

Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....

in 1957.

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