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459:. Nunatak rising to about 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) high, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) southeast of Christoph Nunatak. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1961-68, and Landsat imagery, 1973-74. Named by US-ACAN in 1987 after Steve W. Isakson of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, upper atmospheric physicist at Siple Station, winter party 1975.
379:. A nunatak rising to about 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) high, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northeast of Grossenbacher Nunatak. Mapped by USGS from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy, 1965-68, and from Landsat imagery taken 1973-74. Named in 1987 by US-ACAN after Jan A. Holtet of the Norwegian Institute of Cosmic Physics, upper atmospheric physicist at
421:. A nunatak rising to about 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) high, 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) east-northeast of Holtet Nunatak. Mapped by USGS from United States Navy aerial photographs taken 1965-68 and Landsat imagery taken 1973-74. Named by US-ACAN in 1987 after Klaus J. Christoph, upper atmospheric physicist at Siple Station, 1970-71.
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514:, who named it for Lieutenant Commander Daniel F. Rex, United States Navy, of the Office of Naval Research, who made important contributions to the planning of the scientific research program and the equipping of the expedition.
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502:. An isolated mountain 1,105 metres (3,625 ft) high which rises above the interior ice surface of Ellsworth Land about 55 nautical miles (102 km; 63 mi) south-southeast of
506:. Discovered and photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth (Geographical Review, July 1936, p. 459, Fig. 16). The feature was resighted by the
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