Ashtray Basin
| Ashtray Basin | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ashtray Basin ( ashtray basin ) is a small valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is there at the head of the Arena Valley in the Quartermain Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains .
Descriptively after its shape, the valley was named by a team from the University of New South Wales in Sydney , Australia , who conducted field research in this area between 1966 and 1967.
Web links
- Ashtray Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ashtray Basin on geographic.org (English)