Wright Spiers
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 30 ′ S , 68 ° 31 ′ W | |
The Wright Spiers are three distinctive and up to 750 m high rock pinnacles on the Rymill Coast in the west of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They tower on the east side of Chinook Pass .
Aerial photographs of the formation were taken by the United States Navy in 1966 . The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1970 and 1973. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the spiers in 1977 after surveyors Graham Keith Wright (* 1942) from the British Antarctic Survey, who from 1969 to 1971 on the Hallet station and 1972-1973 on the station of the Survey on Stonington Iceland active and headed the latter from 1974 to 1975.
Web links
- Wright Spiers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wright Spiers on geographic.org (English)