The Spire (Viktorialand)
| The Spire | ||
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| height | 2600 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Spire (English for the tip ) is a striking and over 2600 m high rock needle in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the western end of Rampart Ridge in the Royal Society Range .
Members of the northern New Zealand geodetic team in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) gave the formation its descriptive name in February 1957 in the course of survey work.
Web links
- The Spire in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Spire on geographic.org (English)