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Farquharson Nunatak () is a
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. ...
northwest of
Mount Lombard Mount Lombard () is the highest peak dominating the mountain mass whose southern extremity is Cape Sobral, Graham Land, Antarctica, and surmounting Mundraga Bay to the west. It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ...
on
Sobral Peninsula The Sobral Peninsula () is a high and mainly ice-covered peninsula in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. The feature is long and wide and projects southward into the northern part of the Larsen Ice Shelf west of Larsen Inlet. Location The Sob ...
, on the Nordenskjöld Coast of Antarctica. The nunatak is surmounting
Mundraga Bay Mundraga Bay ( bg, залив Мундрага, zaliv Mundraga, ) is the 28.6 km wide bay indenting for 23 km Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is entered east of Fothergill Point and west of Cape Sobral. Local coastli ...
to the west. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Geoffrey W. Farquharson, a
British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
geologist who worked in this area in the 1979–80 and 1980–81 field seasons.


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Nunataks of Graham Land Nordenskjöld Coast {{NordenskjöldCoast-geo-stub