Ritala track

Ritala track
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height	1000 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 6 '35 " S , 48 ° 55' 10" W Coordinates: 83 ° 6 '35 " S , 48 ° 55' 10" W

The Ritala Spur is a 1000 m high and mostly snow-covered rock spur in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it extends from the east side of the Lexington Table in a northeasterly direction.

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1979 after the geophysicist Keith D. Ritala, who carried out investigations into the Earth's gravity field at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program in the Antarctic winter of 1972 .

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