Devils Punchbowl
| Devils Punchbowl | ||
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| Waters | Granite Harbor , McMurdo Sound , Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Tributaries | Dewdrop Glacier | |
Devils Punchbowl ( English for the devil's bowl ) is a bay in the shape of a sunken mountain cauldron on the Scott coast of East Antarctica, Victoria . It is located in the southwest corner of Granite Harbor between Devils Ridge and the south side of The Flatiron .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, mapped and named this bay.
Web links
- Devils Punchbowl in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Devils Punchbowl on geographic.org (English)