Kuno Cirque

Kuno Cirque
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location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Geographical location	80 ° 38 ′ 40 ″ S , 24 ° 55 ′ 39 ″ W Coordinates: 80 ° 38 ′ 40 ″ S , 24 ° 55 ′ 39 ″ W

The Kuno Cirque is a mountain basin filled with glacial ice in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It lies between the Glen Glacier and Murchison Cirque on the south side of the Read Mountains in the Shackleton Range .

Aerial photographs of the formation were taken by the United States Navy in 1967. The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain basin in 1972 after the Japanese geologist Hisashi Kuno (1910–1969), who researched basaltic magma .

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