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Bekker Nunataks

They were mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Lieutenant Colonel Mieczysław G. Bekker, Polish-born Canadian engineer, the author of Theory of Land Locomotion, 1956, a comprehensive source of information on the physical relationship between snow mechanics and track-laying vehicles, skis and sledges.



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