The Colosseum
| The Colosseum | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Colosseum (English for The Coliseum ) is a steep-walled, with moraine rubble piled mountain basin in the southern East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Darwin Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains, it lies on the east side of the Colosseum Ridge .
It got its name because it and the four other mountain basins of the Colosseum Ridge are reminiscent of the Colosseum in Rome .
Web links
- The Colosseum in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Colosseum on geographic.org (English)