Beetle track
| Beetle track | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Beetle Spur (English for beetle spur ) is a rock spur in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It extends 3 km north of Mount Patrick from a small peak in the Commonwealth Range to the east side of the Beardmore Glacier .
The first sighting probably goes back to the four-man southern group of the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . The descriptive name for the rock spur was suggested by geologist John D. Gunner of Ohio State University , who collected geological samples there during an expedition that lasted from 1969 to 1970.
Web links
- Beetle trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beetle Spur on geographic.org (English)