Lear Spire

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Lear Spire
height 2470  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Colwell Massif , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
Lear Spire (Antarctica)
Lear Spire

The Lear Spire is a 2470  m high rock needle in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 5 km south of Ugolini Peak in the Colwell massif .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after D'Ann Figard Lear (* 1949), librarian of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research .

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