Wild trail
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 42 ′ S , 62 ° 32 ′ W | |
The Wild Spur is a mountain ridge on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the west side of the Arctowski Peninsula , it extends from Pulfrich Peak .
It is recorded for the first time on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Swiss geodesist and equipment manufacturer Heinrich Wild (1877–1951), founder of the Heinrich Wild company, a workshop for precision mechanics and optics for development and sales of equipment for geodetic surveying.
Web links
- Wild track in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wild Spur on geographic.org (English)