Pickering Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Pickering Nunataks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of nunataks lying 2 mi SW of Mount Phoebe and on the NE side of Saturn Glacier, in eastern Alexander Island. The nunataks were photographed by Lincoln Ellsworth, Nov. 23, 1935, in the course of a trans-Antarctic flight and were plotted from the air photos by W.L.G. Joerg. Named by UK-APC from association with Saturn Glacier after William H. Pickering (1858-1938), the American astronomer who discovered Phoebe, one of the satellites of Saturn.
No images of this place could be found.