Grossman Nunataks

The Grossman Nunataks are a group of about a dozen nunataks in Palmer Land in the British Antarctic Territory

These nunataks rise between 4,200 feet and 5,000 feet in elevation and run northwest–southeast for 18 nautical miles between the Lyon Nunataks and the Sky-Hi Nunataks. The group includes features from the Smith Nunataks and the Whitmill Nunatak in the northwest to Gaylord Nunatak and Neff Nunatak in the southeast.

The group was mapped and named by the United States: the material was gather from surveys by the US Geological Survey, US Navy aerial photographs, 1961–68, and from US Landsat imagery, 1973–74. It was named by the Americans too, the name chosen by the ‘Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names’ in 1994 after Charles Grossman, formerly Chief of the Shaded Relief and Special Graphics Unit, Branch of Special Maps in the United States Geological Survey, a specialist in the production of maps of Antarctica.

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• Location: 74°55’1"S, 72°40’1"W