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Wilson Nunatak

Station ID: WILN

Coordinate: S 80.0398, W 80.5579

Installed: 2007-2008 season

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Transportation: Twin Otter

Closest operations HUB: 61km to ALE Union Glacier Camp

An irregular string of nunataks about 8 mi long, lying between the Douglas Peaks and the head of Hercules Inlet in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Named by the University of Minnesota Geological Party to these mountains, 1963-64, for Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Wilson, pilot with the 62nd Transportation Detachment which assisted the party (https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=133759).