Dana Cirque
| Dana Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
The Dana Cirque is a 800 m diameter mountain basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is east of the Conrad Ledge on the Plateau The Fortress in the Cruzen Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the basin in 2005 after the hydrologist Gayle Lynn Dana (* 1953) from the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno , who was involved in environmental studies in the Antarctic dry valleys in five campaigns between 1993 and 2001 .
Web links
- Dana Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dana Cirque on geographic.org (English)