Komatsu Nunatak () is a very prominent

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. ...

rising to near its center. It stands west of the summit of

Mount Van der Hoeven Mount Van der Hoeven () is a mountain (1,940 m) at the north side of the head of Boggs Valley, near the center of Helliwell Hills. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, an ...

in the western part of the

Helliwell Hills The Usarp Mountains are a major Antarctic mountain range, lying west of the Rennick Glacier and trending north to south for about . The feature is bounded to the north by Pryor Glacier and the Wilson Hills. These mountains were discovered an ...

, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63. 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 ...

named the nunatak after Stanley K. Komatsu, a United States Antarctic Research Program biologist at

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...

, 1966–67 and 1967–68.

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Nunataks of Victoria Land Pennell Coast {{VictoriaLand-geo-stub