Oread track
| Oread track | ||
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| height | 1185 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Oread Spur is a 1185 m high ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 16 km west of Crater Cirque on the southern flank of the Tucker Glacier .
Participants in a campaign that ran from 1957 to 1958 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition set up a surveying station on the ridge. They named it after the oreads from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Oread track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oread Spur on geographic.org (English)