Shaw Nunatak

Shaw Nunatak (coord|69|33|S|71|12|W|) is a nunatak rising to 500 m in Nichols Snowfield, northern Alexander Island. Photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1960. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1977 after Colin Shaw (1944-78), British Antarctic Survey (BAS) surveyor who worked in Alexander Island, 1975-76.