Gootee Nunatak is a small but distinctive

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. ...

, about high, which is the only rock outcrop at the west end of Couzens Bay, Shackleton Coast,

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. The nunatak was geologically mapped by a

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field party led by

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, 2000–01, and named after geologist Brian Gootee, a member of the party.

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