Igloo track
| Igloo track | ||
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| height | 160 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Igloo Spur (English for igloo spur ) is a small, isolated, 160 m high rock spur on the Antarctic Ross Island . At the eastern end of the island, it rises from a mountain ridge that extends southeast of Bomb Peak .
Scientists from a 1958-1959 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition mapped and named him. The rock spur is the place where the three-man team around Edward Adrian Wilson erected a stone igloo in July 1911 during their winter march to Cape Crozier during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913).
Web links
- Igloo track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Igloo Spur on geographic.org (English)