Foltz Nunatak

Foltz Nunatak (74°8′S 76°20′W) is a nunatak rising to about 800 metres (2,600 ft), 1 nautical mile (2 km) north of Schwartz Peak in Antarctica. The feature is part of a nunatak group that was discovered and photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth in November 1935. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961–68, and from Landsat imagery taken 1973–74. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Gary F. Foltz, a USGS cartographic technician and a member of USGS satellite surveying teams at the South Pole Station during two winter periods, 1978 and 1984.[1]

References
  1. "Foltz Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 29 March 2012.

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