Meade Nunatak
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Meade Nunatak () is a nunatak 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Blanchard Hill, rising to 990 m in the Pioneers Escarpment, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967. Surveyed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968-71. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Charles F. Meade (1881-1975), English mountaineer and designer of the Meade tent.
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