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Yee Nunataks

Field	Value
country	Antarctica
country_type	Continent
subdivision2_type	Region
map	Antarctica
range_coordinates

The Yee Nunataks () are a group of scattered nunataks, about 24 nmi long and 12 nmi wide, centered 35 nmi northeast of Lyon Nunataks in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. The nunataks rise 1,300 - in elevation and in the four quadrants include Staack Nunatak, Olander Nunatak, Metzgar Nunatak and Triassic Nunatak.

Location

The Yee Nunataks are in eastern Ellsworth Land, to the south of the English Coast of George VI Sound. They are north of the Lyon Nunataks, Merrick Mountains and Sky-Hi Nunataks. Individual nunataks include, from west to east, Staack Nunatak, Horner Nunatak, Tollefson Nunatak and Olander Nunatak.

Mapping and name

The Yee Nunataks were mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1961–68, and United States Landsat imagery, 1973–74. They were named in 1994 by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Virginia Yee-Wray, cartographer and air brush specialist in the Shaded Relief and Special Maps Unit, Branch of Special Maps, USGS, who for many years prepared USGS shaded relief maps of Antarctica.

Features

Eastern Ellsworth Land (south), Southern Palmer Land (north). Behrendt Mountains in southwest of map.

Triassic Nunatak

Jurassic Nunatak

Crutcher Rock

Staack Nunatak

Horner Nunatak

Gardner Nunatak

Voight Nunatak

Tollefson Nunatak

Metzgar Nunatak

Olander Nunatak

References

Sources

{{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G.
{{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellsworth_Land_-_Palmer_Land.jpg |accessdate=2024-01-19

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