Punchbowl Cirque
| Punchbowl Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Allan Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Punchbowl Cirque (English for bowl bowl ) is a mountain kettle in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills, it is half a mile southwest of Roscolyn Tor in the southern part of Shipton Ridge .
The mountain basin was explored in 1964 by a team who worked in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Punchbowl Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Punchbowl Cirque on geographic.org (English)