Dean Cirque
| Dean Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dean Cirque is a mountain basin in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range, it lies between the southeast section of the Prentice Plateau and Apollo Peak . To the south it opens to the labyrinth .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after Christopher T. Dean, a helicopter pilot in eight consecutive campaigns of the United States Antarctic Program between 1996 and 1997.
Web links
- Dean Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dean Cirque on geographic.org (English)