Strawberry Cirque
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Miller Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Geographical location | 83 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Type | Bergkessel |
The Strawberry Cirque (English for strawberry kettle ) is a 1.5 km wide, semicircular and glaciated mountain kettle in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Miller Range, it is located at the southern end of the Macdonald Bluffs on the northern flank of the mouth of the Argo Glacier in the Marsh Glacier .
A team of geologists from Ohio State University who worked in the area between 1967 and 1968 named it after the strawberry-colored granite rock found here .
Web links
- Strawberry Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Strawberry Cirque on geographic.org (English)