Rude track
| Rude track | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 27 ′ S , 160 ° 49 ′ E | |
The Rude Spur is a rocky mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It leads from the polar plateau 3 km northwest of Mount Circe to Balham Lake and the Balham Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the oceanographer Jeffrey D. Rude, who drowned on October 12, 1975 after his tracked vehicle broke through an ice sheet that was too thin near the Erebus glacier tongue off Ross Island .
Web links
- Rude track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rude Spur on geographic.org (English)