Adit Nunatak is
an exposed area of land not covered with ice or snow west-northwest of
Mount Alibi
Mount Alibi () is a conspicuous mountain in eastern Voden Heights on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land, situated 3 nautical miles (6 km) east-southeast of Adit Nunatak on the north side of Leppard Glacier, in Graham Land. The mountain was disc ...
on the north side of
Leppard Glacier
Leppard Glacier () is a large valley glacier draining east between the Aristotle Mountains and Voden Heights, and flowing into Scar Inlet north of Ishmael Peak, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The glacier was first seen from the ...
, in
Voden Heights
Voden Heights ( bg, Воденски възвишения, ‘Vodenski Vazvisheniya’ \'vo-den-ski v&z-vi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights extending 42.5 km in the east-west direction and 15.4 km wide, rising to 1700 m ( Mount Zadruga) on Os ...
on
Oscar II Coast
Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...
in
Graham Land. Surveyed by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955. Named ''
adit'' (entrance) by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), because at the time (1957), it marked the approach to an unsurveyed inland area between Leppard Glacier and
Flask Glacier
Flask Glacier (), is a gently-sloping glacier, long, flowing east from Bruce Plateau to enter Scar Inlet between Daggoo Peak and Spouter Peak in Graham Land, Antarctica. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the ...
.
References
Nunataks of Graham Land
Oscar II Coast
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