Goorkha Craters
| Goorkha Craters | ||
|---|---|---|
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
|
||
| Coordinates | 79 ° 45 ′ S , 159 ° 34 ′ E | |
The Goorkha Craters (English for Gurkha Craters ) are an 8 km long row of snow-covered hills in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, they rise 3 km west of the Cooper Nunatak in the neighboring Cook Mountains between the Carlyon and Darwin glaciers .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered and named them. The naming was in the context of that of the Kukri Hills .
Web links
- Goorkha Craters in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Goorkha Craters on geographic.org (English)