Red Spur (Deception Island)
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| location | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 57 ′ S , 60 ° 36 ′ W | |
The Red Spur ( English for red spur ) is a mountain ridge made of red lava rock and agglomerate on Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It extends southeast of Crimson Hill on the banks of Pendulum Cove .
The British geologist Donald Durston Hawkes (* 1934) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1961. Polish scientists named it in 1999 after its reddish appearance.
Web links
- Red Spur in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)