The Alexander Nunataks () are two coastal
nunataks at the southern limit of the
Windmill Islands, standing on the shore of
Penney Bay east of the base of the
Browning Peninsula. They were first mapped from air photos taken by
U.S. Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...
Operation Highjump and
Operation Windmill
Operation Windmill (OpWml) was the United States Navy's Second Antarctica Developments Project, an exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–1948. This operation was a follow-up to the First Antarctica Development Project known as O ...
in 1947 and 1948, and named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Photographer's Mate
H.N. Alexander, a member of one of the two Operation Windmill photographic units that obtained air and ground photos of the area in January 1948.
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References
Nunataks of Wilkes Land
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