Brandau Crater
| Brandau Crater | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Brandau Crater is a unvergletscherter volcanic crater on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range it rises from the Chancellor Ridge south of the mouth of the Howchin Glacier in McMurdo Sound .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 1994 after Lieutenant Commander James F. Brandau (* 1934) of the United States Navy , helicopter pilot of the VX-6 flight squadron in this area in 1964 and 1965.
Web links
- Brandau Crater in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brandau Crater on geographic.org (English)