Caird Trough
Coordinates: 77 ° 16 ′ S , 33 ° 28 ′ W
The Caird Trough is an approximately 8 km long and 3.5 km wide deep sea channel off the Luitpold coast of the East Antarctic Coatsland . It lies west of the confluence of the Dawson-Lambton Glacier in the Weddell Sea .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2012 based on the naming of the neighboring Caird coast to the east . It is named after the Scottish entrepreneur James Key Caird (1837-1916), main financier of the endurance expedition (1914-1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Caird Trough in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)