Spiret
| Spiret | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Borg massif | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Spiret (Norwegian for point ) is a rock needle in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Borg massif it rises in the north-western part of the Borga .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them on the basis of geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Spiret peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spiret Peak on geographic.org (English)