Watts Needle

Watts Needle
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height	1450 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 43 ′ 46 ″ S , 24 ° 59 ′ 9 ″ W Coordinates: 80 ° 43 ′ 46 ″ S , 24 ° 59 ′ 9 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Watts Needle is a 1450 m high rock needle in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Read Mountains of the Shackleton Range , it looms at the southwest end of a ridge east of the Glen Glacier .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the British geologist William Whitehead Watts (1860-1947).

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