Wallabies Nunataks () is a large 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 near the polar plateau, lying 10 nautical miles (18 km) northeast of
All-Blacks Nunataks All-Blacks Nunataks () is a group of conspicuous nunataks lying midway between Wallabies Nunataks and Wilhoite Nunataks at the southeast margin of the Byrd Névé in Antarctica. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960â ...
at the east side of the
Byrd Neve
The Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide, draining an extensive area of the polar plateau and flowing eastward between the Britannia Range and Churchill Mountains to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf at Barne Inl ...
. Named by the
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Features named by the expeditions 1957 ...
(NZGSAE) (1960–61) for the Australian national rugby team.
Mount Stent Mount Stent is mountain at the southern extreme of the Wallabies Nunataks, west of the Churchill Mountains.
It was named in honor of N. E. Stent, a member of the 1961 Cape Hallett winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic
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lies at the southern extreme of the nunataks.
See also
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Mount Exley Wallabies Nunataks () is a large group of nunataks near the polar plateau, lying 10 nautical miles (18 km) northeast of All-Blacks Nunataks at the east side of the Byrd Neve. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition ...
, a mountain at 1,980 metres (6,500 ft) in the Wallabies Nunataks
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Woodgyer Peak
References
Nunataks of Oates Land
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