Vesta Nunataks is a group of 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...

s rising to about 1,200 m between Grikurov Ridge

Grikurov Ridge

Grikurov Ridge is a ridge that extends westward for about 6 nautical miles from the south end of the LeMay Range, in Alexander Island. The feature was mapped from trimetrogon air Photography taken by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, and from survey by Falkland Islands Dependencies...

 in LeMay Range

LeMay Range

LeMay Range is a mountain range 64 km long with peaks rising to 2,000 m, extending in a northwest-southeast direction from Snick Pass to Uranus Glacier in central Alexander Island. It was first seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and the north and east portions...

 and Aeolus Ridge

Aeolus Ridge

Aeolus Ridge is a ridge trending northeast–southwest and rising to about at the southern end of Planet Heights in eastern Alexander Island. Named in 1987 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Aeolus, the Greek god of wind, in reference to prevailing weather encountered...

 in Planet Heights

Planet Heights

Planet Heights is a series of summits along a ridge, extending 24 nautical miles in a north-south direction between the south part of LeMay Range and George VI Sound in the east part of Alexander Island. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, by...

, eastern Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. In association with the names of planets and their satellites in this area, they were named after Vesta

4 Vesta

Vesta, formally designated 4 Vesta, is one of the largest asteroids, with a mean diameter of about . It was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on March 29, 1807, and is named after the Roman virgin goddess of home and hearth, Vesta....

, an asteroid that lies between the orbits of Mars

Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...

 and Jupiter

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...

. They were named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1987.