Baines Nunatak (80°19′S 23°58′W / 80.317°S 23.967°W / -80.317; -23.967) is a nunatak rising to 1,020 metres (3,350 ft) to the east of Bernhardi Heights and 10 nautical miles (19 km) northwest of Jackson Tooth, Pioneers Escarpment, in the Shackleton Range. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey, 1968–71, and named in 1977 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Thomas Baines (1822–75), an English explorer and joint author, with William Barry Lord, of Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration (London, 1871).[1]

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  1. "Baines Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 17 May 2011.

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