Knobhead Moraine
| Knobhead Moraine | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Quartermain Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 51 ′ S , 161 ° 36 ′ E | |
The Knobhead Moraine ( English for Knubbelkopfmoräne ) is a moraine made of coarse rubble in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains , it lies north of the Knobhead and extends between the Cavendish Rocks and the western end of the Kukri Hills as a central moraine of the Taylor Glacier .
The Australian polar explorer Bertram Armytage explored and named it in the course of the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the mountain of the same name.
Web links
- Knobhead Moraine in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Knobhead Moraine on geographic.org (English)