O'Connell Nunatak

O'Connell Nunatak

O'Connell Nunatak (coord|84|43|S|65|8|W|) is a peaked rock nunatak, 1,210 m, standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) south-southeast of Mount Murch in southern Anderson Hills, in the Patuxent Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Richard V. O'Connell, seismologist at South Pole Station, winter 1967.


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