Puccini Spur

Puccini Spur is a rock spur, 6 nautical miles long, extending southwest into the Mozart Ice Piedmont close south of Mahler Spur in the north part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first seen from the air and roughly mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937. The Puccini Spur was accurately delineated from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, and by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. It is named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Giacomo Puccini, an Italian operatic composer.