# Watts Needle

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{{Short description|Mountain in Antarctica}}
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'''Watts Needle''' ({{coord|80|44|S|24|59|W|display=inline,title}}) is a needle-shaped [peak](/source/summit_(topography)) (1,450 m) at the southwest end of the ridge east of [Glen Glacier](/source/Glen_Glacier), in the [Read Mountains](/source/Read_Mountains), [Shackleton Range](/source/Shackleton_Range). It was photographed from the air by the [U.S. Navy](/source/U.S._Navy) in 1967 and was surveyed by the [British Antarctic Survey](/source/British_Antarctic_Survey) (BAS) from 1968 to 1971. In association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, it was named by the [United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee](/source/United_Kingdom_Antarctic_Place-Names_Committee) (UK-APC) in 1971 after [William Whitehead Watts](/source/William_Whitehead_Watts) (1860–1947), a British geologist who worked particularly on the Precambrian rocks of the English midlands. Watts was also a professor of geology at the [Imperial College](/source/Imperial_College) in London from 1906 to 1930.

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