Jupiter amphitheater
| Jupiter amphitheater | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Morozumi Range , Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Jupiter Amphitheater is an imposing, steep-walled and of a glacier ingested Valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Usarp Mountains , it lies in the eastern Morozumi Range between the Sickle Nunatak and Mount Van Veen .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. Participants in a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , which lasted from 1967 to 1968 , made the name.
Web links
- Jupiter Amphitheater in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jupiter Amphitheater on geographic.org (English)