Roberts Cirque
| Roberts Cirque | ||
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 Topographic map of Toney Mountain with Roberts Cirque (top center) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Toney Mountain | |
| Geographical location | 75 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 115 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Roberts Cirque is a designated by a bare rock cliff mountain basin in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . On the north-central wall of Toney Mountain, it lies west of Zurn Peak .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1971. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after John H. Roberts III. (* 1939), Chief Commissaryman of the US Navy at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1976.
Web links
- Roberts Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roberts Cirque on geographic.org (English)