Hughes Basin
| Hughes Basin | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Firnfield | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 19 ′ S , 156 ° 18 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
The Hughes Basin is a large firn field in the form of a basin which, apart from the south side , is bordered by the Ravens Mountains , Mount Henderson , Mount Olympus and Mount Quackenbush . The basin has a north-south gradient of 2000 m near Mount Olympus at 1000 m not far from Darnell Nunatak , where it merges into the Byrd Glacier .
It is named after the geologist Terence J. Hughes from the University of Maine , who carried out intensive investigations and surveying work on the Byrd Glacier in the 1978/1979 season.
Web links
- Hughes Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hughes Basin on geographic.org (English)