Hengist Nunatak () is an isolated flat-topped

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, more than in height, which rises above Roberts Ice Piedmont north of

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lying in the northeastern extremity of Alexander Island,

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. It was first photographed from the air in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under

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, and was surveyed from the ground in 1948 by the

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. The names for this feature and for the

Horsa Nunataks The Horsa Nunataks () are an isolated group of about five partly snow-covered nunataks, more than high, which rise above Roberts Ice Piedmont, north of Mount Calais, in the northeastern part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were first phot ...

to the north are for the brother chieftains, Hengist and Horsa, who were believed to have led the first Saxon bands which settled

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in the fifth century.

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Nunataks of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub