Abele lane
| Abele lane | ||
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| height | 1559 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 13 ′ 19 ″ S , 51 ° 2 ′ 31 ″ W | |
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The Abele Spur is a 1559 m high rock spur located on the western flank of Mount Lechner towards the Herring-Nunatakker in the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him at the suggestion of the US geologist Arthur B. Ford after Gunars Abele (1934-1989), a Latvian civil engineer of the United States Antarctic Research Program , for the geodetic investigation of the area through the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) of the United States Army Corps of Engineers .
Web links
- Abele track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abele 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).