Simmons Basin

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Simmons Basin
ASTER satellite image of the Simmons Basin; Simmons Lake is the larger lake in the shadow of the Friis Hills

ASTER satellite image of the Simmons Basin; the Simmons Lake is the larger lakes in the shadow of Friis Hills

location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Geographical location 77 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  S , 161 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E
Simmons Basin (Antarctica)
Simmons Basin
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The Simmons Basin is a largely ice-free basin in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It extends between the Solitary Rocks and the Friis Hills in a southeastern direction not far from the north side of the bend of the Taylor Glacier . The lower eastern end is taken up by Simmons Lake and a side tongue of the Taylor Glacier.

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the basin in 1992 after the US-American biologist George M. Simmons Jr. of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , who from 1977 teamed the United States Antarctic Research Program in studies at Lake Bonney , Fryxell for over ten years , Lake Hoare , Lake Vanda and other lakes in the Antarctic Dry Valleys .

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