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Cinder Spur

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2022
Entity authorityQ5120413 ↗
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Cinder Spur (62°9′S 58°11′W) is a small spur extending into Legru Bay, 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) west of Low Head on the south coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 because the feature is composed mainly of volcanic cinders.

Cinder Spur was later proven to be a cirque after snow retreat and is a dyke.

Extending north of the Spur is Mistake Crag.

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This article incorporates public domain material from "Cinder Spur". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cinder, Spur and Open-knowledge can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cinder Spur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.