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The Alley Spur is a rock spur on the north side of the
Dufek Massif Dufek Massif, Augusto Pinochet Massif or Santa Teresita Massif is a rugged, largely snow-covered massif long, standing west of the Forrestal Range in the northern part of the Pensacola Mountains. It was discovered and photographed on January 13, 1 ...
, just south of Sapp Rocks, in the
Pensacola Mountains The Pensacola Mountains are a large group of mountain ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Queen Elizabeth Land region of Antarctica. Geography They extend 450 km (280 mi) in a NE-SW direction. Subranges of th ...
of
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. It was mapped by the
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from surveys and
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air photos, 1956–66, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain Dalton E. Alley,
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, navigator, a member of the
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in the Pensacola Mountains, 1957–58.


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* Ridges of Queen Elizabeth Land {{QueenElizabethLand-geo-stub