The quadrangle
| The quadrangle | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 34 ′ 37 ″ S , 68 ° 34 ′ 42 ″ W | |
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The Quadrangle (English for Das Viereck ) is a mountain basin filled with glacier ice in the east of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It lies between Mount Umbriel and the Venus Glacier and, apart from a southern entrance, is bordered on three sides by mountain ridges.
The British Directorate of Overseas Surveys , in collaboration with the United States Geological Survey, mapped it using Landsat images from NASA . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made the descriptive naming in 1974.
Web links
- The Quadrangle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Quadrangle on geographic.org (English)