Tabor track
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 15 ′ S , 90 ° 14 ′ W | |
The Tabor Spur is a narrow and rugged mountain ridge in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . He jumps out at the front of the Bermel Escarpment between the Taylor Outlier and the Elliott Nunatak .
The US cartographer Peter Frank Bermel and the US geologist and polar explorer Arthur B. Ford , who led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey to the Thiel Mountains between 1960 and 1961 , made the name. It is named after Rowland Whitney Tabor (* 1932), who as a geologist took part in explorations of the Thiel Mountains from 1961 to 1962.
Web links
- Tabor trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tabor Spur on geographic.org (English)