Campbell Nunatak () is a coastal

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

at the southeast limit of the

Windmill Islands The Windmill Islands are an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks about wide, paralleling the coast of Wilkes Land for immediately north of Vanderford Glacier along the east side of Vincennes Bay. Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with de ...

, overlooking the southeast extremity of

Penney Bay Penney Bay is a large bay extending from Robinson Ridge to Browning Peninsula, at the eastern side of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp, 1946–47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US ...

east-northeast of the

Alexander Nunataks 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 Operat ...

. It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy

Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948, and named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for H. Campbell, Jr., a member of one of the two Operation Windmill photographic units which obtained air and ground photos of the area in January 1948.

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Nunataks of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub