Lilliput Nunataks

Coordinates: 66°8′S 62°40′W / 66.133°S 62.667°W / -66.133; -62.667
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The Lilliput Nunataks (66°8′S 62°40′W / 66.133°S 62.667°W / -66.133; -62.667) are three

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947. The name, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, means land of small people and was applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association with Gulliver Nunatak.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Lilliput Nunataks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-06-15.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Lilliput Nunataks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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