Feature Name (see definition): Baines Nunatak

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 850

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 80° 19' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 023° 58' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -80.3166667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -23.9666667

Elevation (see definition): 1020

Decision Year (see definition): No data

Description (see definition): Nunatak rising to 1,020 m to the E of Bernhardi Heights and 10 mi NW of Jackson Tooth, Pioneers Escarpment, in the Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967. Surveyed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968-71. Named in 1977 by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) after Thomas Baines (1822-75), English explorer and joint author, with W.B. Lord, of Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration (London, 1871).

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