Sleek track
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
part of | Churchill Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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Coordinates | 81 ° 19 ′ S , 160 ° 12 ′ E |
The Sleek Spur (English for smooth spur ) is a conical and icy mountain ridge on the Shackleton coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it rises 13 km southwest of Cape Parr as the eastern end of the Kelly Plateau at the point where the Nursery , Jorda and Starshot glaciers meet in the Ross Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him descriptively in 2003.
Web links
- Sleek track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sleek track on geographic.org (English).