Friedmann Nunataks [SEP] continent
Friedmann Nunataks
The Friedmann Nunataks () are a small group of nunataks southeast of the Braddock Nunataks on the western margin of Dyer Plateau, Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Herbert Friedmann of the Smithsonian Institution, author of "Birds of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939–41" ("Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", Vol. 89, 1945).
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