Foster Crater
| Foster Crater | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Foster Crater is the crater of a cone mountain made of pyroclastic sediments in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises on the northern flank of the Foster Glacier south of Highway Ridge .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1994 based on the name of the Foster Glacier. Its namesake is Major James Foster of the United States Marine Corps , assistant air operations officer of Task Force 43 of the United States Navy in Antarctica in 1960.
Web links
- Foster Crater in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Foster Crater on geographic.org (English)