Prescott Trail
| Prescott Trail | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 6 ′ S , 162 ° 17 ′ E | |
The Prescott Spur is a rocky and up to 1250 m high mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range, it rises north-south between the Robson and Pyne glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2007 by Richard John Prescott (* 1935) from the construction crew Seabees of the US Navy , which the construction of the McMurdo Station , the fueling station on the Beardmore Glacier and the first Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was involved and had also looked after the sled dogs at the two research stations mentioned .
Web links
- Prescott track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prescott Spur on geographic.org (English)