Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Bennett Spur (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bennett Spur (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Spur
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c. 800m on Boyd Escarpment, Dufek Massif, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964; following field work by USGS from 1965, named after David W. Bennett, of USGS, who with R. Worcester (Worcester Summit, q.v.) formed the first doppler research team at the "South Pole Station" in 1973 (APC, 1980, p.3). (USGS sheet SU 21-25/10, 1989).
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