Victory Nunatak is a conspicuous island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

-like 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...

 with three rocky summits, the southernmost and highest rising to 360 meters. It rises above the ice of southeastern Mobiloil Inlet

Mobiloil Inlet

Mobiloil Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, nurtured by several northeast and east flowing glaciers, lying between Rock Pile Peaks and Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in a flight on December 20, 1928, and named by him after a...

 8 nautical miles (15 km) southeast of Kay Nunatak

Kay Nunatak

Kay Nunatak is a dark rocky nunatak rising to 500 m, situated at the south side of Mobiloil Inlet and forming the northernmost outlier of Hitchcock Heights, on the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. The nunatak was photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins on December 20, 1928, and by...

 on 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....

. The nunatak was first mapped by W.L.G. Joerg from air photos taken by Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 on November 23, 1935. It was subsequently photographed from the air by United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in September 1940, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in August 1947, and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE) (Trimetrogon air photography) in December 1947. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1961; when viewed from the air three dots and a dash, Morse code for the letter "V", are apparent on the surface of the feature.