Boom Basin
| Boom Basin | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Boom Basin ( English for Wummsbecken ) is a small basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range , it is on the north side of the Radian Ridge immediately west at the confluence of the Pipecleaner and Radiant Glaciers .
A team from the New Zealand Geological Survey heard a loud explosion noise here on December 3, 1977, the cause of which could not be clarified, but gave the basin its name.
Web links
- Boom Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boom Basin on geographic.org (English)