💠 Faulkner Nunatak

Antarctica · Antarctica · 69.60°S, 71.70°W

Faulkner Nunatak is a distinctive nunatak, about 200 metres (660 ft) high, just west of Beagle Peak and 9.5 km west by south of Mount Devol in the Lassus Mountains, in the northwest part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature appears in U.S. Navy aerial photographs obtained in 1966. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Harold T. Faulkner, U.S. Navy, Leading Chief of Squadron VXE-6 Photo Division on Operation Deep Freeze, 1969.

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Country	Antarctica
Continent / region	Antarctica
Coordinates (approx.)	69.60°S, 71.70°W · view on map

Faulkner Nunatak is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

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