Spur (topography)

A spur is a lateral ridge or tongue of land descending from a hill, mountain or main crest of a ridge. It can also be defined as another hill or mountain range which projects in a lateral direction from a main hill or mountain range.

Examples of spurs include:
 * Abbott Spur, which separates the lower ends of Rutgers Glacier and Allison Glacier on the west side of the Royal Society Range in Victoria Land, Antarctica
 * Boott Spur, a subpeak of Mount Washington
 * Kaweah Peaks Ridge, a spur of the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of California's Sierra Nevada
 * Kelley Spur, 4 km east of Spear Spur on the south side of Dufek Massif in the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica
 * Geneva Spur on Mount Everest
 * Sperrin Mountains in Northern Ireland