Walsh Spur (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Walsh Spur (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Spur (2f)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A pointed rock spur 4 mi E of Mount Northampton in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land. The spur forms the W side of the terminus of Whitehall Glacier. First mapped from surveys by NZGSAE, 1957-58, and U.S. Navy aerial photography. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. Don Walsh, USN, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, 1971-72. In 1960, with Jacques Piccard, Walsh descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Trieste.
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