McSaveney trail
| McSaveney trail | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Willett Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 17 ′ S , 160 ° 35 ′ E | |
The McSaveney Spur is a prominent mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Willett Range it rises 3 km northeast of Mount Bastion . It extends from the polar plateau in a north-easterly direction to the north-west flank of the Webb Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the couple Maurice James (* 1945) and Eileen R. McSaveney (* 1945), who worked as geologists between 1968 and 1973 both jointly and independently in the area of the Meserve Glacier and the Wright Valley were operating.
Web links
- McSaveney track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McSaveney Spur on geographic.org (English)