Senouque Spurs
| Senouque Spurs | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Rouen Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 4 ′ S , 71 ° 4 ′ W | |
The Senouque Spurs are around 1250 m high mountain ridges on the Antarctic Alexander I Island . They extend from the Rouen Mountains in a north-westerly direction to the Bongrain-Piedmont Glacier .
The first aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . These recordings were used in 1959 for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1975 and 1976. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the ridges in 1980 after the French astronomer Albert Senouque (1882-1970), magnetologist and photographer of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot .
Web links
- Senouque Spurs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Senouque Spurs on geographic.org (English)