Levassor Nunatak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

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

↑ "Levassor Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-06-12.

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