Koppe Canyon
Coordinates: 71 ° 35 ′ S , 17 ° 26 ′ W
The Koppe Canyon is a deep-sea trench in the Haakon VII Sea off the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica .
It has been named since 1997 at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . It is named after the German geodesist Carl Koppe (1844–1910), who developed the first phototheodolite for terrestrial photogrammetry around 1890 .
Web links
- Koppe Canyon in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Koppe Canyon in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)