Half moon crater
| Half moon crater | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Half Moon Crater (English for crescent crater ) is a volcanic crater on the Hut Point Peninsula in the southwest of the Antarctic Ross Island . It is located 800 m southwest of Castle Rock .
Frank Debenham , participant in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), named it descriptively after its shape in the course of measurements of the peninsula carried out in 1912.
Web links
- Half Moon Crater in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Half Moon Crater on geographic.org (English)