Harvey Cirque
| Harvey Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Harvey Cirque is cirques with a small glacier of the southern part of Darwin Mountains in Transantarctic Mountains . It lies between Scheuermann Spur and Corell Cirque . To a small extent, the Bergkessel is a transit station for the ice masses from the Prebble Icefalls to the Hatherton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the basin in 2001 after the American geologist Ralph P. Harvey of Case Western Reserve University , who was involved in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program between 1992 and 2001 .
Web links
- Harvey Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harvey Cirque on geographic.org (English)