Costa lane
| Costa lane | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Costa Spur is a prominent rock spur on the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends 6 km southwest of Quetin Head on the Daniell Peninsula in an easterly direction to the Ross Sea and marks the southern edge of Mandible Cirque .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after Daniel P. Costa of the University of California, Santa Cruz , who from 1977 carried out studies on the seal populations at McMurdo Sound , South Georgia and Livingston Island and as a senior scientist within the GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) program took part in two voyages of the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Antarctic winter of 2001 and 2002.
Web links
- Costa trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Costa Spur on geographic.org (English)