David Cauldron
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 Looking east over the David Glacier with the David Cauldron |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 20 ′ S , 160 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
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The David Cauldron (English for David Kessel ) is a glacier break made up of towering ice blocks in the middle of the David Glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land .
The southern group of a campaign that ran from 1962 to 1963 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named the glacier break based on the name of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is the Australian geologist Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934), participant in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- David Cauldron in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- David Cauldron on geographic.org (English)