Hunt Nunataks [SEP] continent
Hunt Nunataks
The Hunt Nunataks () are a linear group of nunataks, long, lying just east of Mount Bechervaise in the Athos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. They were plotted by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from air photos obtained in 1965, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for P. Hunt, a senior helicopter pilot with the Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1969.
case of petrels and other flying seabirds, the ability to nest on nunataks may have allowed them the ability to stay on the continent during the glacial period and fly down to the edge of the ice for food. However, this was most likely not the case with colony forming species such as the Adélie penguin and the Antarctic elephant seal.
The Antarctic elephant seal was likely a resident of the Antarctic continent (Victoria Land) 7,500–8,000 years ago. However, an advance of ice 1000 years ago drove them away to the