Gordon track
| Gordon track | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 16 ′ S , 58 ° 7 ′ W | |
The Gordon Spur is a mountain ridge in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends from the western flank of Mount Coulter in the Schmidt Hills to the Foundation Ice Stream .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2010. It is named after the British geomorphologist John Gordon, who studied the sub-Antarctic islands from the 1970s to the 2000s .
Web links
- Gordon Spur in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)