Marsh Cirque
| Marsh Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Marsh Cirque is a 1.5 km wide and partly by glacial ice ingested mountain basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range , it is on the south side of Mount Hercules and Mount Dido . To the south it opens to the labyrinth .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after the geologist Bruce D. Marsh of Johns Hopkins University , who was involved in seven campaigns of the United States Antarctic Program between 1995 and 2005 in investigations into the basal storage system in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Marsh Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marsh Cirque on geographic.org (English)