Drifter Cirque
| Drifter Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Drifter Cirque (English for drifting cauldron , also known as Eddy Cirque ) is a mountain cauldron in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range, it is located at the northeast end of the Eastwind Ridge between Mount Schmidtman and Mount Naab .
The glacier owes its name to the fact that the ice flow from Eastwind Ridge is insufficient to carry the moraine debris on its surface over the Fry Glacier . This is deposited in the form of a vortex ( English eddy ) in the mountain basin. Both names go back to the New Zealand Geographic Board , the former was recognized on January 15, 2008 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names .
Web links
- Drifter Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Drifter Cirque on geographic.org (English)