Mosley-Thompson Cirques
| Mosley-Thompson Cirques | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Colwell Massif , Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mosley-Thompson Cirques are striking and steep-walled mountain basins in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They are located in the western part of the Colwell massif .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1994 after the glaciologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson (* 1952) from Ohio State University , who from 1974 was involved in investigations of ice cores from Antarctica and who also worked on the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station , the Siple- Station and the plateau station .
Web links
- Mosley-Thompson Cirques in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mosley-Thompson Cirques on geographic.org (English)