Greenville Hole
| Greenville Hole | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Greenville Hole is a circular and 200 m deep depression in the middle of the Greenville Valley in East Antarctica Victoria Land . This object, with a diameter of 1.5 km, represents the geographically lowest point in the Convoy Range .
The Depression was named after the naming of the valley of the same name. Its namesake is the USNS Greenville Victory , a cargo ship of the US associations in McMurdo Sound from 1956 to 1957.
Web links
- Greenville Hole in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Greenville Hole on geographic.org