Maish Nunatak (74°36′S 99°28′W / 74.600°S 99.467°W / -74.600; -99.467) is a nunatak located 5 nautical miles (9 km) west-southwest of Mount Moses, in the central part of the Hudson Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for F. Michael Maish, an ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in 1967, who also served as a U.S. exchange scientist at Vostok Station in 1969.[1]

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  1. "Maish Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 29 July 2013.

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