Hilt Cirque
| Hilt Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 17 ′ 30 ″ S , 160 ° 51 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
The Hilt Cirque is a mountain basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the westernmost mountain basin on the Plateau The Fortress in the Cruzen Range and is 800 m in diameter east of the Salyer Ledge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain kettle in 2005 after Lieutenant John Wesley Hilt of the United States Navy . Hilt was a pilot of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter of the VX-6 flight squadron, which made aerial photographs of the Saint Johns Range , the Willett Range and the Cruzen Range on November 20, 1959 .
Web links
- Hilt Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hilt Cirque on geographic.org (English)