Hall Nunataks [SEP] continent
Hall Nunataks
The Hall Nunataks () are a group of four nunataks about east-southeast of Mount Bunt in the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. They were plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos taken in 1960, and were named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for R.G. Hall, an assistant diesel mechanic at Wilkes Station in 1964.
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