Kendall Basin
| Kendall Basin | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 80 ° 14 '53 " S , 25 ° 32' 14" W | |
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The Kendall Basin is a non-iced mountain basin in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range, it lies at the northwest end of the Herbert Mountains .
The United States Navy took aerial photographs in 1967. The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the basin in 1972 after the British glacial geologist Percy Fry Kendall (1856-1936) from the University of Leeds .
Web links
- Kendall Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kendall Basin on geographic.org (English)