Lizard 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. ...

rising to about situated within the

Nichols Snowfield Nichols Snowfield () is a snowfield, 22 nautical miles (41 km) long and 8 nautical miles (15 km) wide, bounded by the Rouen Mountains and Elgar Uplands to the east and Lassus Mountains to the west, in the north part of Alexander Island, ...

, in the northern portion of

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. It is situated 12 km east by north of

Mount Kliment Ohridski Mount Kliment Ohridski ( bg, връх Климент Охридски, vrah Kliment Ohridski, ) is the highest ridge (1422m

and 9 km south-southeast of the summit of

Landers Peaks The Landers Peaks () are a group of peaks east of Mount Braun, rising to about between Palestrina Glacier and Nichols Snowfield in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Name ...

Sofia University Mountains Sofia University Mountains (планина Софийски Университет \pla-ni-'na so-'fiy-ski u-ni-ver-si-'tet\) are a cluster of four small mountains, long in the southwest-northeast direction and wide, rising to ca. (Mount Klim ...

, and 6.4 km southwest of Serpent Nunatak and 9.38 km north by west of

Tegra Nunatak Tegra Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Тегра, ‘Nunatak Tegra’ \'nu-na-tak 'te-gra\) is the mostly ice-free rocky ridge extending 2.6 km in east–west direction and 700 m wide, rising to 1075 m Rouen Mountains The Rouen Mountains () are a prominent mountain range, reaching to about 2,800 m and extending 35 miles (60 km) NW-SE from Mount Bayonne to Care Heights and Mount Cupola, in north Alexander Island, Antarctica. This mountain range is known ...

. The feature was so named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

in 1977 from its shape and in association with Serpent Nunatak lying to the northeast.

References

Nunataks of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub

See also

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