Fletcher Nunataks

The Fletcher Nunataks (74°54′S 72°47′W) are two nunataks lying 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km) southwest of Barker Nunatak in the Grossman Nunataks, in Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1965–68 and Landsat imagery taken 1973–74, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after James B. Fletcher, a USGS cartographic technician who, with Kenneth Barker, formed the USGS satellite surveying team at South Pole Station, winter party 1977.[1]

References
  1. "Fletcher Nunataks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 27 March 2012.

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