Specimen Nunatak () is a small but distinctive rock pinnacle that rises above the ice of
Swithinbank Glacier about 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of the
glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...
terminus, in
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
. The feature was visited on February 9, 1941 by
Herbert G. Dorsey and
Joseph D. Healy of the
United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the ...
(USAS), 1939–41, who gave the name because the pinnacle was a good example of a
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 ...
projecting above a broad ice field.
Nunataks of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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