Prague lane
| Prague lane | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 0 ′ S , 70 ° 20 ′ W | |
The Prague Spur is a 500 m high mountain ridge on Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises at the eastern end of the Mozart Piedmont Glacier between the Puccini Spur and the Finlandia Foothills .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). These were used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the ridge in 1977 based on the naming of the Mozart Piedmont Glacier after the “Prague Symphony” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
Web links
- Prague track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prague Spur on geographic.org (English)