Walsh trail
| Walsh trail | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 40 ′ S , 169 ° 22 ′ E | |
The Walsh Spur is a pointed mountain ridge in the Victory Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 6 km east of Mount Northampton on the western flank of the Whitehall Glacier just before its confluence with Tucker Inlet .
Surveys by scientists from a 1957 to 1958 campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition and aerial photographs by the United States Navy were used for its mapping. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1973 after the US oceanographer Don Walsh (* 1931), who served as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development in the United States Department of the Navy from 1971 to 1972 .
Web links
- Walsh track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Walsh Spur on geographic.org (English)