Sagehen Nunataks

Sagehen Nunataks () is a roughly triangular group of

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. ...

s rising to about above base level on the east side of

Holdsworth Glacier Holdsworth Glacier () is a tributary glacier about long, flowing northeast from Fuller Dome to enter the southeast side of Bartlett Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subo ...

, north of

McNally Peak McNally Peak () is a peak high, standing west of Mount Farley, near the southeast side of Holdsworth Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander Joseph John McNally ...

, in the

Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic P ...

, Antarctica. They were mapped by

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(USGS) from surveys and

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aerial photographs from 1960 to 1964. In 1978–79 they were visited by a

United States Antarctic Research Program The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

(USARP)-

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geological field party. They were named after the Sagehen, mascot of

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, the alma mater of Scott G. Borg, one of the field party members. Amundsen Coast Nunataks of the Ross Dependency {{RossDependency-geo-stub