Pentecost Cirque
| Pentecost Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Pentecost Cirque is a mountain basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the south side of the Olympus Range, it lies between Hawkins Cirque and Dean Cirque and opens south to the Upper Wright Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after John S. Pentecost, a helicopter pilot in seven consecutive campaigns under the United States Antarctic Program between 1997 and 1998.
Web links
- Pentecost Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pentecost Cirque on geographic.org (English)