Half Dome 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. ...
lying south of the
Cobham Range
The Cobham Range () is a mountain range in the Churchill Mountains of the Ross Dependency, Antarctica.
It extends to the north of the Nimrod Glacier.
Location
The Cobham Range trends in a northwest–southeast direction for about in the souther ...
in Antarctica, at the mouth of
Lucy Glacier
The Nimrod Glacier is a major glacier about 135 km (85 mi) long, flowing from the polar plateau in a northerly direction through the Transantarctic Mountains between the Geologists and Miller Ranges, then northeasterly between the Chur ...
. It was so named by the northern party of the
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Features named by the expeditions 1957 ...
(1961–62) because it is rounded on one side and cut into sheer cliffs on the other side.
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References
Nunataks of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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