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[[File:Gawne-Nun.jpg|350px|thumb|Map showing location of Gawne Nunatak in the Moulton-Berlin mountain range]]
'''Gawne Nunatak''' (76°3′S 135°24′W) is a [[nunatak]] on the east side of Wells Saddle between [[Mount Berlin]] and [[Mount Moulton]] in the [[Flood Range]] of [[Westarctica]].

==Discovery and name==
Gawne Nunatak was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and [[U.S. Navy]] air photos taken during the years 1959–66. It was named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names in honor of Steven P. Gawne, a member of the United States Antarctic Research Program team that studied [[ice sheet]] dynamics in the area northeast of [[Byrd Station]] in the 1971–72 season.

==Peerage title==
On 17 January 2019, Helmut Schoeneseiffen was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica|peerage title]] Baron of Gawne.

[[Category: Nunataks]]

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