Rennick Basin
Coordinates: 69 ° 50 ′ S , 161 ° 0 ′ E
The Rennick Basin ( English ; previously known as Rennick Trough ) is a 900 m lying lake basin off the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located with north-south orientation in the area where the Rennick Glacier flows into Rennick Bay .
The current name has been established since the mid-1980s and has been accepted by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee since November 15, 2006 . As with the neighboring geographical objects, it is named after Henry Edward de Parny Rennick (1881–1914), a ship officer on the Terra Nova in the expedition named after this (1910–1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Rennick Basin in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Rennick Basin in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)