Iceland Arena
| Iceland Arena | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Island Arena is a large valley in the northern part of the Darwin Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains , which is occupied by a side tongue of the Darwin Glacier . It lies between the Colosseum Ridge and the Kennett Ridge . In the middle of the valley, Richardson Hill rises like an island-like nunatak from the ice masses.
Participants in the 1962 to 1963 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions mapped it and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Iceland Arena in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Island Arena on geographic.org (English)