Besson track
| Besson track | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 23 '0 " S , 161 ° 1' 45" O | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Besson Spur is a cliff-like rock spur in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located between the Papitashvili Valley and the Hernandez Valley in the Apocalypse Peaks .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 by the US physicist David Z. Besson (born 1957) from the University of Kansas , the Antarctic under the program for the study of elementary radiation ( AMANDA , A ntarctic M uon A nd N eutrino D etector A rray) between 1997 and 2004 at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station was active.
Web links
- Besson trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Besson Spur on geographic.org (English)