Peel Cirque
| Peel Cirque | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 8 ′ 36 ″ S , 70 ° 34 ′ 24 ″ W | |
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The Peel Cirque is a mountain basin in the northeast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is located on the southwest side of the Roberts Piedmont Glacier .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey 1959 also used aerial photographs for mapping purposes . The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) carried out surveys between 1973 and 1977. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980 after the glaciologist David Anthony Peel (* 1944), who had worked for the BAS since 1968 and from 1975 to 1976 on Alexander I Island.
Web links
- Peel Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peel Cirque on geographic.org (English)