Reid track
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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Coordinates | 84 ° 46 ′ S , 178 ° 30 ′ E |
The Reid Spur is an 8 km long ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains , it extends from a previously unnamed hill 5 km northwest of Mount Bellows in a northerly direction along the eastern flank of the Ramsey Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Chief Warrant Officer James S. Reid, a member of a United States Army Air Force who supported a Texas Tech University crew to explore the Shackleton Glacier between 1964 and 1965.
Web links
- Reid track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reid Spur on geographic.org (English)