Cain Nunatak
Location of Trinity Peninsula.
Cain Nunatak (63°34′S 57°42′W / 63.567°S 57.700°WCoordinates: 63°34′S 57°42′W / 63.567°S 57.700°W) is the westernmost of two isolated nunataks on the south side of Broad Valley, situated 3.37 km east-northeast of Kumata Hill on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The name arose at the time of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey geological survey in 1960–61 and is in association with nearby Abel Nunatak, through the story of Cain and Abel.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cain Nunatak" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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