Hansen track
| Hansen track | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Hansen Spur is a 13 km long rock spur in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it extends from the northwest flank of the Nilsen Plateau to the edge of the Amundsen Glacier immediately east of the Olsen Crags .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the formation based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the spur in 1967 after the Norwegian Ludvig Hansen (1871-1955), sailor and ice pilot the Fram during the South Pole expedition (1910–1912) of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen . The committee thus kept Amundsen's designation of an unidentifiable mountain in the vicinity of the rock spur as Mount L. Nansen .
Web links
- Hansen trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hansen Spur on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludvig Anton Hansen (1871-1955) . Short biography on the Frammuseum homepage (accessed December 19, 2016).