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Morse Spur () is a spur projecting south from the
Saint Johns Range Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper Glacier, Victoria Upper and V ...
between
Deshler Valley Victoria Valley is one of the larger McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. Lake Vida is the largest lake of the valley. The Victoria River drains the Victoria Upper Glacier, with Upper Victoria Lake just below it and northwest of Lake Vida, into ...
and
Crawford Valley Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper and Victoria Lower Glacie ...
in Victoria Land. Named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...
in 2005 after David L. Morse, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin; ten Antarctic field seasons, from 1990 to 2004, including four at the
Taylor Dome Taylor Dome () is an elliptical ice dome, 43 nautical miles (80 km) long ESE-WNW and 16 nautical miles (30 km) wide, rising to 2,400 m, centered about 29 nautical miles (50 km) west-northwest of Mount Crean, Lashly Mountains, Victo ...
ice core site, three conducting aerogeophysical research in both East and West Antarctica, and three seasons of ground-based studies of the
Bindschadler Ice Stream Bindschadler Ice Stream () is an ice stream between Siple Dome and MacAyeal Ice Stream. It is one of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice streams were investigated and mapped by U.S. Antarctic ...
in West Antarctica and Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land.


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