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Riddiford Nunatak

Coordinates: 80°59′S 159°48′E / 80.983°S 159.800°E / -80.983; 159.800
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Riddiford Nunatak (80°59′S 159°48′E / 80.983°S 159.800°E / -80.983; 159.800) is a small but conspicuous nunatak (c.1200 m) with an adjoining lower outcrop, lying 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) west-northwest of Abercrombie Crests in Darley Hills, Churchill Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles E. Riddiford, National Geographic Magazine cartographer/typographer, about 1923–58; his drawings illustrate the NGM monograph The Round Earth on Flat Paper, 1947. One of several features in Darley Hills that are named for NGS staff.

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