Waikato track
| Waikato track | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 3 ′ S , 162 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Waikato Spur is a 5 km long mountain ridge in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it extends northwest from Mount Lister and separates the upper sections of the Emmanuel and Carleton glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 based on the naming of other objects in this area, which are named after universities, after the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand .
Web links
- Waikato track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Waikato Spur on geographic.org (English)