Puccini track
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 3 ′ S , 70 ° 36 ′ W | |
The Puccini Spur is a 10 km long mountain ridge in the northern part of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises immediately south of the Mahler Spur and extends southwest into the Mozart Piedmont Glacier .
It was discovered from the air and roughly mapped in 1937 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) were used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for a more precise mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the ridge in 1961 after the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Web links
- Puccini trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Puccini Spur on geographic.org (English)