Wallabies Nunataks () is a large group of

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...

s near the polar plateau, to the west of the

Churchill Mountains The Churchill Mountains is a major range of mountains and associated elevations bordering the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. They are south of the Britannia Range and north of the Geologists Range, ...

, Antarctica.

Location

The Wallabies Nunataks are 10 nautical miles (18 km) northeast of

All-Blacks Nunataks All-Blacks Nunataks () is a group of conspicuous nunataks lying midway between Wallabies Nunataks and Wilhoite Nunataks at the southeast margin of the Byrd Névé in Antarctica. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (19 ...

at the east side of the

Byrd Névé The Byrd Glacier () is a major glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide. It drains an extensive area of the Antarctic plateau, and flows eastward to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf. Location The Byrd Glacier flows eastward between the ...

. They border the

Chapman Snowfield Chapman Snowfield () is a large snowfield lying west of the central ridge in the Churchill Mountains in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. Location Chapman Snowfield is bounded to the north by Elder Peak and the massif surmounted by Mo ...

to the west. They were named by the

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Features named by the expeditions 19 ...

(NZGSAE) (1960–61) for the Australian national rugby team.

Features

Bledisloe Glacier

. A glacier flowing north west between

and Wallabies Nunataks. It was named in association with the adjacent All-Blacks and Wallabies Nunataks, and specifically named after the

Bledisloe Cup The Bledisloe Cup is an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia's Wallabies and New Zealand's All Blacks that has been contested since the 1930s. The frequency that the competition is held has varied, as has the n ...

, which is contested between the New Zealand and Australian

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

teams, the

All-Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of New Zealand, which is considered the country's national sport. Famed for th ...

and the

Wallabies A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and som ...

Mount Stent

. A high mountain at the southern extreme of the Wallabies Nunataks. It was named in honor of N. E. Stent, a member of the 1961

Cape Hallett Cape Hallett is a snow-free area (Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north. History In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was damag ...

winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.

Woodgyer Peak

. A peak above in the Wallabies Nunataks. Named in honor of M. G. Woodgyer, a member of the 1962

winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.

Mount Exley

. A mountain high in the Wallabies Nunataks. It was named in honor of R. R. Exley, a member of the 1962

winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.

Green Nunatak

. A

rising to approximately at the northern extreme of the Wallabies Nunataks. It was named in honor of E. N. Green, a member of the 1964

winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.

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