Feature Name (see definition): Lacroix Nunatak

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 8350

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 51' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 141° 20' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.85

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 141.3333333

Elevation (see definition): 75

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1955

Description (see definition): Ridge of terminal moraine, about 1 mi long and 75 m high, standing immediately S of a small zone of low rocky ridges which protrude above the ice-covered point 2 mi SW of Cape Margerie, Adelie Coast. Discovered in 1931 by British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) personnel on the believing it to be a 300-m rock peak. Named by Mawson after French mineralogist Alfred Lacroix (Mount Lacroix, q.v.). Photographed from the air by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp, 1946-47. Surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE), 1949-51, which established an astronomical control station near its center.

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