Kienle Cirque
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| location | White Island , Ross Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kienle Cirque is an ice-filled mountain basin on White Island in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . With a diameter of 3 km it is the largest mountain basin in the west of the island.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1999 after the volcanologist Juergen Kienle (1938–1996) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks , who carried out six campaigns from 1981 to 1986 to investigate the volcanic and seismic activity of Mount Erebus on the neighboring Ross- Island had headed.
Web links
- Kienle Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kienle Cirque on geographic.org (English)