Tufft Nunatak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Tufft Nunatak (63°55′S 58°42′W / 63.917°S 58.700°W / -63.917; -58.700Coordinates: 63°55′S 58°42′W / 63.917°S 58.700°W / -63.917; -58.700) 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 Roger Tufft of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a member of the reconnaissance party for the Detroit Plateau journey in February 1957.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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