Spear track
| Spear track | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dufek Massif , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 37 ′ 44 ″ S , 52 ° 18 ′ 26 ″ W | |
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The Spear Spur is a 1600 m high rock spur in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . On the south side of the Dufek massif in the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 5 km east of the Clinton Spur .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names him named in 1968 by Albert Spear, the most in the Antarctic winter 1957 as a construction worker on the Ellsworth Station operates was.
Web links
- Spear track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spear Spur on geographic.org (English)