Oceana Nunatak () is one of the
Seal Nunataks
The Seal Nunataks are a group of 16 islands called nunataks emerging from the Larsen Ice Shelf east of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. The Seal Nunataks have been described as separate volcanic vents of ages ranging from Miocene to Pleistocen ...
, lying at the northwest corner of
Robertson Island
Robertson Island is an ice-covered island, long in a northwest-southeast direction and wide, lying at the east end of the Seal Nunataks off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Captain Carl Anton Larsen discovered Robertson Island fr ...
, off the east coast of
Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by a Norwegian whaling expedition under
C.A. Larsen
Carl Anton Larsen (7 August 1860 – 8 December 1924) was a Norway, Norwegian-born Whaling, whaler and Antarctic explorer who made important contributions to the exploration of Antarctica, the most significant being the first discovery of fos ...
in December 1893, and named after the
Oceana Co. of Hamburg, a sponsor of the expedition.
References
Nunataks of Graham Land
Oscar II Coast
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