Finn Spur

Finn Spur (

79°17′S 156°37′E / 79.283°S 156.617°E / -79.283; 156.617Coordinates: 79°17′S 156°37′E / 79.283°S 156.617°E / -79.283; 156.617) is a rock spur 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Mount Ayres on the north side of Longhurst Plateau, in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica. It was named after , a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), who was USGS project chief on a cooperative USGS–German aeromagnetic survey over the Butcher Ridge – Cook Mountains – Darwin Névé area, 1997–98, and also performed additional aeromagnetic surveys from 1991, including seasons over the West Antarctic ice sheet from 1994 as a principal investigator and USGS project chief.^[1]

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•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Finn Spur". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)