Back Cirque
| Back Cirque | ||
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| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | The Princess Royal Range | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 38 ′ 51 ″ S , 68 ° 29 ′ 2 ″ W | |
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The Back Cirque is an east-facing mountain basin in the southeast of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . It is located north of the Sloman Glacier and is an indentation on the south side of a mountain ridge that extends from the south-eastern part of Mount Liotard in the Princess Royal Range .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1982 after Eric Kenneth Prentice Back (* 1942) from the British Antarctic Survey , who in addition to his work on the Adelaide station and in Grytviken, the Signy station (1974-1975), the Halley station (1975–1976), Faraday Station (1977–1978) and Rothera Station (1978–1979).
Web links
- Back Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Back Cirque on geographic.org (English)