Shipwreck Moraine
| Shipwreck Moraine | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Albert Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 51 ′ S , 161 ° 47 ′ E | |
The Shipwreck Moraine ( English for shipwreck moraine ) is a long moraine in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Prince Albert Mountains , it stretches between Black Pudding Peak and Mount Brøgger in a valley next to the Benson Glacier .
A team led by the New Zealand glaciologist Trevor JH Chinn (* 1937), who worked in this area as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program from 1989 to 1990, recalled an accident with a snowmobile , except here on bare ice Control was advised.
Web links
- Shipwreck Moraine in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shipwreck Moraine on geographic.org