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	===POLENET Monitoring===		===POLENET Monitoring===
	Starting in 2007, scientists from POLENET (the POLar Earth-observing NETwork) attempted to install a GPS monitoring station at the Lepley Nunatak, but were unable to do so. In 2011, after four years of trying, they finally succeeded in traveling to the nunatak via Twin Otter aircraft and found suitable bedrock to install the monitoring equipment. Due to the remoteness of the station, data from this site is transmitted via Iridium satellite communications.		Starting in 2007, scientists from POLENET (the POLar Earth-observing NETwork) attempted to install a [[Automatic weather station\|GPS monitoring station]] at the Lepley Nunatak, but were unable to do so. In 2011, after four years of trying, they finally succeeded in traveling to the nunatak via Twin Otter aircraft and found suitable bedrock to install the monitoring equipment. Due to the remoteness of the station, data from this site is transmitted via Iridium satellite communications.

	[[File:Lepley Nunatak.jpg\|thumb\|center\|800px\|GPS monitoring station at Lepley Nunatak]]		[[File:Lepley Nunatak.jpg\|thumb\|center\|800px\|GPS monitoring station at Lepley Nunatak]]

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			==Noble title==
			As part of the [[20th Anniversary Honors and Appointments]] celebrating [[Westarctica]]'s 20 years of sovereignty, Chief Justice [[Christine McPhee]] of the [[Grand Ducal Court]] was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica\|peerage title]] Countess of Lepley.

	==External links==		==External links==

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	==Exploration==		==Exploration==
	It was first sighted on 9 February 1961 from helicopters of the USS ''Glacier'' (AGB-4) and USS ''Staten Island'' (AGB-5). While the three-person field survey team was exploring surrounding area, they became trapped on the ground by severe winds and heavy snowfall causing total whiteout conditions. The team sheltered in place at the nunatak until the storm blew over, and it was later named for Larry Lepley, one of the members of the team.		It was first sighted on 9 February 1961 from helicopters of the [[USS Glacier\|USS ''Glacier'']] (AGB-4) and USS ''Staten Island'' (AGB-5). While the three-person field survey team was exploring surrounding area, they became trapped on the ground by severe winds and heavy snowfall causing total whiteout conditions. The team sheltered in place at the nunatak until the storm blew over, and it was later named for Larry Lepley, one of the members of the team.

	===POLENET Monitoring===		===POLENET Monitoring===

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'''Lepley Nunatak''' (73°7′S 90°19′W) is a small yet conspicuous rocky [[nunatak]] located 2 nautical miles (4 km) southwest of [[Dendtler Island]], near the inner part and eastern end of the [[Abbot Ice Shelf]] in [[Westarctica]].

The nunatak is named for Larry K. Lepley, an oceanographer of the [[U.S. Navy]] Hydrographic Office, who, along with three other scientists, was marooned at this nunatak in February 1961 during a severe snowstorm.

==Exploration==
It was first sighted on 9 February 1961 from helicopters of the USS ''Glacier'' (AGB-4) and USS ''Staten Island'' (AGB-5). While the three-person field survey team was exploring surrounding area, they became trapped on the ground by severe winds and heavy snowfall causing total whiteout conditions. The team sheltered in place at the nunatak until the storm blew over, and it was later named for Larry Lepley, one of the members of the team.

===POLENET Monitoring===
Starting in 2007, scientists from POLENET (the POLar Earth-observing NETwork) attempted to install a GPS monitoring station at the Lepley Nunatak, but were unable to do so. In 2011, after four years of trying, they finally succeeded in traveling to the nunatak via Twin Otter aircraft and found suitable bedrock to install the monitoring equipment. Due to the remoteness of the station, data from this site is transmitted via Iridium satellite communications.

[[File:Lepley Nunatak.jpg|thumb|center|800px|GPS monitoring station at Lepley Nunatak]]

==External links==
[http://polenet.org/lepley-nunatak-2 POLENET site information]

[[Category: Nunataks]]
[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]