Reckling Moraine
| Reckling Moraine | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 15 ′ S , 158 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Reckling Moraine is a moraine in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 13km west of the head of the Mawson Glacier towering Recklinghausen peak . The moraine lies in the middle of a long and narrow zone of bare ice that extends west of the Reckling Peak.
The name was based on that of the mountain of the same name in the course of the search for meteorites in the moraine as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program between 1979 and 1980. The name of the mountain and thus indirectly also the moraine is Lieutenant Commander Darold Louis Reckling (1923– 2004), pilot of the Navy VX-6 squadron in 1961.
Web links
- Recklinghausen Moraine in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reckling Moraine on geographic.org (English)