Cirque fjord
| Cirque fjord | ||
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| Waters | Stefansson Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Land mass | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cirque Fjord ( Norwegian Botnfjorden , translated Kesselfjord ) is an icy fjord on the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It is located on the south side of Law Promontory and opens to Stefansson Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also made the descriptive first name, mapped the fjord using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions sighted the bay in 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia converted the Norwegian name into English on February 18, 1958.
Web links
- Cirque Fjord in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cirque Fjord on geographic.org (English)