Guardian Nunatak () is a rock exposure, high, on the ice-covered spur that descends from
Mount Robert Scott east-northeastward toward the western edge of
Hood Glacier
Hood Glacier () is a glacier about long draining northward from Siege Dome in the Commonwealth Range of Antarctica. It enters the Ross Ice Shelf between the Commonwealth Range and the Separation Range. The glacier was discovered by the Souther ...
, near the juncture with
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between high ...
. It is, as it were, guarding the entrance to the glacier, hence the name given by the
New Zealand Alpine Club Antarctic Expedition, 1959–60.
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References
Nunataks of Antarctica
Dufek Coast
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