Spath Crest () is a summit rocks rising to about 1,450 m and marking the northwest end of
Du Toit Nunataks
The Du Toit Nunataks () are a group of nunataks between Cornwall Glacier and Glen Glacier, marking the western end of the Read Mountains, Shackleton Range. They were photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by the British ...
,
Read Mountains, in the
Shackleton Range. It was photographed from the air by the
U.S. Navy in 1967 and surveyed by the
British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
(BAS) between 1968 and 1971. In association with the names of geologists grouped in the area, it was named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after
Leonard Frank Spath (1882–1957), a British paleontologist and stratigrapher whose study of ammonites made possible the correlation of Mesozoic rocks. Spath was also a paleontologist for the
British Museum of Natural History from 1912 to 1957.
Mountains of Coats Land
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