Hawkins Cirque
Hawkins Cirque | ||
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Geographical location | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Hawkins Cirque is a 800 m wide and partly of a glacier ingested Berg boiler in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range , it is near the center of the southern cliffs of the Prentice Plateau . To the south it opens to the Upper Wright Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after Jack D. Hawkins, lead helicopter pilot in eight consecutive campaigns under the United States Antarctic Program between 1996 and 1997.
Web links
- Hawkins Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hawkins Cirque on geographic.org