Halfway Nunatak
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baumann Crag and Schulz Crag.
Baumann Crag
Peak
Baumann Crag is a rock crag rising to 1,265 metres and forming the south end of Halfway Nunatak, Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 after Christopher C.
Schulz Crag
Peak
Schulz Crag is a 1110 m tall rock summit in eastern Halfway Nunatak named after Thomas J. Schulz, United States Geological Survey cartographer; member of the 1982–83 geodetic control team in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the first joint US-NZ cooperative effort to establish mapping control in order to map the entire region at 1:50,000 scale.
Norton Crag
Peak
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Landing.
The Landing
Locality
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Landing is situated 8 km east of Halfway Nunatak.
Halfway Nunatak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,268 metres
- Description: Nunatak in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Categories: nunatak and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-78.38248° or 78° 22′ 57″ southLongitude
161.04573° or 161° 2′ 45″ eastElevation
1,268 metres (4,160 feet)Open location code
2VH3J29W+27OpenStreetMap ID
node 9099465837OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Halfway Nunatak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Halfway Nunatak”
- Chinese: “哈弗韋冰原島峰”
- German: “Halfway-Nunatak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Halfway Nunatak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halfway Nunatak”
- Swedish: “Halfway Nunatak”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Twin Rocks and Clem Nunatak.
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