The Amphitheater (Viktorialand)
| The amphitheater | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Amphitheater (English for the amphitheater ) is a large basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . To the east of the Royal Society Range, it lies on the north side of Mount Dromedary and is filled with firn . The walls of the cauldron rise up to 1700 m from the bottom of the Roaring Valley .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions gave it a descriptive name because its shape is reminiscent of an ancient amphitheater.
Web links
- The Amphitheater in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Amphitheater on geographic.org (English)