Drake Nunatak
Drake Nunatak is a nunatak 1,935 metres (6,350 ft) high at the base of Bermel Escarpment and 1 nautical mile (2 km) east of Elliott Nunatak, in the Thiel Mountains. The name was proposed by and Peter Bermel, co-leaders of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Thiel Mountains party of 1960–61, for , a USGS geologist aboard the USS Glacier to the Thurston Island and Bellingshausen Sea area, 1960–61.[1]
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- ^ "Drake Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
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Coordinates: 85°17′S 89°20′W / 85.283°S 89.333°W
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