Tilav Cirque
| Tilav Cirque | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 19 ′ 10 ″ S , 160 ° 57 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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The Tilav Cirque is a mountain basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the plateau The Fortress of the Cruzen Range, it lies on the northwest side of the McLean Buttress .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the basin in 2005 after Serap Z. Tilav (* 1958), member of a field research team of the United States Antarctic Program to support the AMANDA project near the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in nine campaigns between 1991 and 2005.
Web links
- Tilav Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tilav Cirque on geographic.org (English)