Slackwater Cirque
| Slackwater Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Slackwater Cirque (English for still water boiler ) is a mountain boiler in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range , it is the westernmost mountain basin in the Eastwind Ridge , which is connected to the "dead" foothills of the Towle Glacier . From Eastwind Ridge only little ice reaches the west end of the Towle Glacier over the basin, as a result of which the basin is crisscrossed by arched supraglacial moraines .
Scientists in a campaign run by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program from 1989 to 1990 named it so to express the scant flow of ice through this mountain basin.
Web links
- Slackwater Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Slackwater Cirque on geographic.org (English)