Aitken Nunatak

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Aitken Nunatak (85°42′S, 173°49′E) is a small rock nunatak, 2,785 m, standing 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Mount Bumstead in the Grosvenor Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for William M. Aitken, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) aurora scientist at South Pole Station, 1962.

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