Kaminuma Crag

Kaminuma Crag (77°38′S 162°27′E) is a craggy, island-like nunatak, 0.75 nautical miles (1.4 km) long, rising to 1,750 metres (5,740 ft) in the uppermost névé area of the Newall Glacier, in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names 1997) after Japanese geophysicist Katsutada Kaminuma, Professor of Earth Sciences at the National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, who worked eight field seasons in the McMurdo Sound region: two seasons with the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, 1974–75, 1975–76; one season with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, 1976–77, and five seasons with the International Mount Erebus Seismic Survey, 1979–80, and 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87.