Tufft Nunatak
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Tufft Nunatak is a small nunatak
3 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Bradley
and 4.6 km south of Senokos Nunatak
, Trinity Peninsula
in Graham Land
, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Ronald W. Tufft of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a member of the reconnaissance party for the Detroit Plateau
journey in February 1957.
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...
3 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Bradley
Mount Bradley
Mount Bradley is a pyramidal peak, high, at the southeast end of a ridge descending from Detroit Plateau, surmounting Znepole Ice Piedmont to the east and Dreatin Glacier to the southwest. The peak is southwest of Mount Reece in southern Trinity Peninsula. It was charted in 1945 by the Falkland...
and 4.6 km south of Senokos Nunatak
Senokos Nunatak
Senokos Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 663 m in Dreatin Glacier on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.The nunatak is named after the settlements of Senokos in Northeastern and Southwestern Bulgaria.-Location:...
, Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which 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 and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Ronald W. Tufft of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a member of the reconnaissance party for the Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...
journey in February 1957.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.