Levassor Nunatak

Levassor Nunatak is a conspicuous horseshoe-shaped nunatak 1 nautical mile (2 km) inland in the middle of Cugnot Ice Piedmont, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for French engineer Émile Levassor, who in 1891 was jointly responsible with René Panhard for a motor car design which originated the principles on which most subsequent developments were based.^[1]

Location[]

Levassor Nunatak is located at (

63°40′S 58°7′W / 63.667°S 58.117°W / -63.667; -58.117Coordinates: 63°40′S 58°7′W / 63.667°S 58.117°W / -63.667; -58.117), which is 5.66 km northeast of Kolobar Nunatak, 10.82 km southeast of Hochstetter Peak and 10 km west-southwest of Chernopeev Peak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map[]

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

References[]

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Levassor Nunatak". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)