Erewhon Basin
| Erewhon Basin | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Erewhon Basin is an expansive and non-iced valley basin in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . The basin lies in the Brown Hills of the Cook Mountains and separates the mouths of the Foggydog and Bartrum Glaciers from the northern edge of the Darwin Glacier .
Participants in a 1962-1963 campaign by New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions explored the basin and named it after the 1872 novel Erewhon by British writer Samuel Butler .
Web links
- Erewhon Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Erewhon Basin on geographic.org (English)