Crater Cirque
| Crater Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Crater Cirque is a mountain basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains , it is on the southern flank of the Tucker Glacier immediately west of the confluence with the Whitehall Glacier . In the middle of the basin is a picturesque lake with red and green algae . In the surrounding rock walls, from which rivulets run down to the lake and in which mosses and lichens grow, nestle the red-legged petrels , skuas and snow petrels .
Participants in a campaign from 1957 to 1958 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition gave the mountain basin its descriptive name.
Web links
- Crater Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crater Cirque on geographic.org (English)