Schmidt subglacial basin
| Schmidt subglacial basin | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 106 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Schmidt Subglacial Basin ( Russian Подлёдная равнина Шмидта , Podljodnaja Rawnina Schmidta ' ; English Shmidt Subglacial Basin ) is a large basin in the East Antarctic Wilkesland , which is completely covered by glacier ice . It extends inland south of the Knox coast .
Participants of the Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956–1958) named it in 1957 after the Soviet Arctic explorer Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt (1891–1956).
Web links
- Shmidt Subglacial Basin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shmidt Subglacial Basin on geographic.org (English)