Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Nordsim Peak

(Cantrill Nunataks)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 75° 3' 14" S 69° 16' 48" W
Rising to a height of 1566 m.a.s.l., main peak of Cantrill Nunataks (q.v.), Sweeney Mountains, Ellsworth Land. Surveyed by the United States Geological Survey 1961-62. Named after the Nordsim Laboratory located in the Laboratory for Isotope Geology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The isotope geochronological and petrogenetic analyses of rock samples from the nunataks were undertaken at the laboratory.