Poppy Basin
| Poppy Basin | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 86 ° 30 ′ S , 168 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| length | 160 km | |
The Poppy Basin is a large depression on the edge of the polar plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It stretches from the western edge of the Quarles Range south over a distance of 160 km and includes the Firnfeldgebiet in the Queen Maud Mountains with one that at the head ends of Bowman Glacier , the Devils Glacier , the Amundsen and Scott Glacier borders .
The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and four companions discovered the depression in the course of his successful South Pole expedition (1910-1912) in December 1911. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the Norwegian meteorologist Henrik Mohn (1835-1916), who was responsible for the meteorological reports Amundsen's research trip.
Web links
- Mohn Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Poppy Basin on geographic.org (English)