Bennett Spiers
| Bennett Spiers | ||
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| height | 1395 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 50 '43 " S , 56 ° 5' 35" W | |
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The Bennett Spiers (English for Bennettspitzen ) are a 1395 m high mountain with two pointed peaks in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It rises in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains at the head of the Jones Valley .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Sergeant Robert E. Bennett of the United States Air Force , radio operator of the United States Air Force Electronics Test Unit in the Pensacola Mountains in the Antarctic summer of 1957/1958.
Web links
- Bennett Spiers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bennett Spiers on geographic.org (English)