Connell Canyon

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Connell Canyon
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Enterprise Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Geographical location 79 ° 50 ′ 37 ″  S , 83 ° 4 ′ 45 ″  W Coordinates: 79 ° 50 ′ 37 ″  S , 83 ° 4 ′ 45 ″  W
Connell Canyon (Antarctica)
Connell Canyon

Connell Canyon is an ice-filled canyon in the Enterprise Hills in West Antarctica . It extends from Linder Peak first to the northeast and then north to the Union Glacier .

Connell Canyon was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the Enterprise Hills survey in 1961-66 through field surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy . The gorge was named in 1966 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Lieutenant Davis B. Connell, a U.S. Navy supply officer at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze in 1965 and 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Connell Canyon ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.