Canfield Mesa
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 ASTER satellite image of the western part of the Island Range : Green Mesa on the left, Canfield Mesa on the right; Balham Lake at the top left |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Range Island , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Canfield Mesa is a 1.3km Table Mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 1.5 km east-northeast of Green Mesa in the western part of the Island Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 after the US geoscientist Donald Eugene Canfield (* 1957), who carried out geochemical analyzes of the Onyx River and Lake Vanda in three campaigns between 1980 and 1988 .
Web links
- Canfield Mesa in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Canfield Mesa on geographic.org (English)