Abbott track
| Abbott track | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 15 ′ S , 161 ° 54 ′ E | |
The Abbott Spur is an ice-covered mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the west side of the Royal Society Range , it separates the lower sections of the Rutgers Glacier and the Allison Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Robin R. Abbott (* 1952), coordinator for the implementation of helicopter missions on McMurdo Station in 1984.
Web links
- Abbott Spur in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abbott Spur on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 2 (English).