Kendall Crater
| Kendall Crater | ||
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| location | Deception Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 58 ′ 20 " S , 60 ° 35 ′ 15" W | |
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The Kendall Crater is an old volcanic crater on Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located west of Ronald Hill on the east bank of Port Foster .
The British geologist Donald Durston Hawkes (* 1934) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1961. Polish scientists named it in 1999. The namesake is not known. It is probably Edward Nicholas Kendall (1800–1845) of the Royal Navy , who carried out the first survey of Deception Island between January and March 1829 during the Antarctic voyage of HMS Chanticleer (1827–1831).
Web links
- Kendall Crater in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)