Butcher's trail
| Butcher's trail | ||
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Butchers Spur is a high, icy rock spur in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It falls from Mount Don Pedro Christophersen to the polar plateau and marks the southern edge of the Queen Maud Mountains .
In this place, the Norwegian polar explorer was Roald Amundsen in November 1911 at his successful South Pole expedition (1910 to 1912) much of the sled dogs as a food supply for the South Pole team and the other dogs kill and named him as Butcher Shop ( German butcher ).
Web links
- Butchers track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Butcher's trail on geographic.org