Wagner track
| Wagner track | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Wilson Hills in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 9 ′ S , 159 ° 36 ′ E | |
The Wagner Spur is a mountain ridge made of rock and ice in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the southeastern foothills of the Wilson Hills, it rises 18 km southeast of Mount Gorton along the northern flank of the Pryor Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after John E. Wagner of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover , New Hampshire , glaciologist at McMurdo Station between 1967 and 1968.
Web links
- Wagner track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wagner Spur on geographic.org (English)