Wendler track
| Wendler track | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 22 ′ 30 ″ S , 160 ° 58 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Wendler Spur is a rock spur in the East Antarctic Viktorialand . It is located between the Albert Valley and the Papitashvili Valley in the Apocalypse Peaks .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after the German climate researcher Gerd Wendler from the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks , who between 1979 and 2001 for the United States Antarctic Program on studies on katabatic winds and their interaction with sea ice on the coast of the Adelie- and Georg-V-Land was involved.
Web links
- Wendler trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wendler Spur on geographic.org (English)