Lang Nunatak [SEP] continent
Lang Nunatak
Lang Nunatak () is an isolated nunatak located in the interior of southern Palmer Land, Antarctica, about west of the head of Irvine Glacier. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James F. Lang, a United States Antarctic Research Program Assistant Representative at Byrd Station, summer 1965–66.
off almost immediately, and twice in the following days it allowed him to climb from crevasses. Once out of the Mertz Glacier his mileage increased, and on 28 January Madigan Nunatak came into view. The following day, after travelling 5 miles, a cairn covered with black cloth appeared about to his right. In it he found food and a note from Archibald Lang McLean, who along with Frank Hurley and Alfred Hodgeman had been sent out by "Aurora"'s captain John King Davis to search for the Far Eastern