Hockey Cirque
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 Topographic map sheet with the Miller Range (top left) and the Hockey Cirque |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Miller Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 83 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Hockey Cirque is an 800 m wide, glacial mountain basin in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is in the Miller Range on the east face of the Ascent Glacier .
A geological team from Ohio State University , who worked in the area from 1967 to 1968, named the mountain basin because they had played an ice hockey game here.
Web links
- Hockey Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hockey Cirque on geographic.org (English)