Flory Cirque
| Flory Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Flory Cirque is a mountain basin in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it lies between the East Groin and West Groin , two mountain ridges on the northern flank of the Taylor Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after Robert B. Flory, geologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Station during three research campaigns between 1968 and 1971.
Web links
- Flory Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flory Cirque on geographic.org (English)