Gealy track
| Gealy track | ||
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 Topographic map with the Gealy Spur (far left) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Alexandra chain in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 38 ′ S , 165 ° 13 ′ E | |
The Gealy Spur is a high ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain , it extends on the western flank of the Beardmore Glacier from Mount Marshall to Willey Point .
It is likely that he was first sighted in 1908 by the southern group of the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1972 after William James Gealy (1925-1994), Stratigraph in the geological expedition undertaken by Ohio State University between 1969 and 1970 in this area, who discovered fossils of terrestrial vertebrates while working on this rock spur .
Web links
- Gealy track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gealy track on geographic.org (English).