Nakai Snowfield

Nakai Snowfield (77°29′S 161°31′E) is a snowfield at about 1,600 m (5,200 ft) elevation that occupies the col between Mount Hercules and Mount Jason in Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Nobuyuki Nakai, Department of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; a participant in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Drilling Project, 1973–76.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Nakai Snowfield". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) 


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