- Nakai Snowfield
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Nakai Snowfield (77°29′S 161°31′E / 77.483°S 161.517°E) is a snowfield at about 1600 m elevation that occupies the col between Mount Hercules and Mount Jason in Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Nobuyuki Nakai, Department of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; a participant in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Drilling Project, 1973-76.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Nakai Snowfield" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).CategoryLandforms of Victoria Land
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