Eureka Spurs
| Eureka Spurs | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 42 ′ S , 166 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Eureka Spurs are several rock spurs in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They tower eight miles southwest of Mount McCarthy on the east side of the head end of the Mariner Glacier .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1971 to 1972 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions to the Evans Firnfeld named it " Heureka " (German: "I found [it]") based on the saying " Heureka " attributed to Archimedes . The trigger for this was the discovery of fossils in this area.
Web links
- Eureka Spurs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eureka Spurs on geographic.org (English)