Destination Nunataks is a group of peaks and nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

s, 9 nautical miles (17 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, rising to 2,565 m at Pyramid Peak

Pyramid Peak (Antarctica)

Pyramid Peak is a peak in the southeast part of Destination Nunataks, Victoria Land, rising to 2,565 m. It is located 1 mile north of Sphinx Peak. Descriptively named by the Northern Party of NZFMCAE, 1962-63....

 and including Sphinx Peak

Sphinx Peak

Sphinx Peak is a massive summit 1 nautical mile south of Pyramid Peak, in the southeast part of Destination Nunataks, Victoria Land. Named in association with Pyramid Peak by the Northern Party of NZFMCAE, 1962-63....

, Andrews Peak

Andrews Peak

Andrews Peak is a peak, high, in the Destination Nunataks, west of Pyramid Peak in north Victoria Land. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Peter Andrews, geologist with the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition Evans Neve field party, 1971–72,...

, Mummy Ridge

Mummy Ridge

Mummy Ridge is a ridge 1 nautical mile east of Pyramid Peak in the Destination Nunataks, north Victoria Land. The ridge was visited in 1981-82 by Bradley Field, geologist, New Zealand Geological Survey, who suggested the name in association with nearby Pyramid Peak and Sphinx Peak....

, and unnamed nunataks to the northwest, located in northeast Evans Neve

Evans Neve

Evans Neve is a large neve which nourishes the Tucker, Mariner, Aviator, Rennick and Lillie Glaciers. Named for Edgar Evans of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, by the Northern Party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1963-64. Evans, Wilson, Oates and Bowers...

, 7 nautical miles (13 km) northwest of Barker Range

Barker Range

Barker Range is a mountain range trending northwest–southeast and including Jato Nunatak, Mount Watt, Mount McCarthy, and Mount Burton, located at the southwest side of Millen Range in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for...

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. This group was visited in 1970-71 by a Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) geological party led by M.G. Laird. The name "Destination Rocks" was originally used for the feature because these nunataks were near the northern limits of Laird's expedition. The name Destination Nunataks, as approved by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica...

 (NZ-APC) and Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

(US-ACAN) in 1985, applies to the entire group described rather than to two nunataks at the southeast end as indicated on some maps.