Starbuck Cirque
| Starbuck Cirque | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Starbuck Cirque is an impressive and 6 km wide mountain basin in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It lies between the base of Tentacle Ridge and Mount Hughes in the Cook Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 after Michael J. Starbuck, cartographer of the United States Geological Survey , who, together with Roger A. Barlow, was responsible for the operation of the seismic and Doppler satellite stations at and from the geographic South Pole in the Antarctic winter of 1992 1996-1997 participated in the US-New Zealand geodesy program in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Starbuck Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Starbuck Cirque on geographic.org (English)