The Cauldron

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The Cauldron
location Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica
Geographical location 66 ° 38 '54 "  S , 99 ° 23' 39"  E Coordinates: 66 ° 38 '54 "  S , 99 ° 23' 39"  E
The Cauldron (Antarctica)
The Cauldron

The Cauldron ( English for the boiler ) is an imposing, in a north-south extent of 500 meters long and about 180 m wide mountain basin in the East Antarctic Queen Mary Land . It is located about 1.5 km south of Cape Jones on the eastern flank of the Denman Glacier .

Australian scientists discovered it from the air in 1986 and named it descriptively.

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