Weiken Basin
Coordinates: 70 ° 24 ′ S , 4 ° 0 ′ W
The Weiken Basin ( English ) is a lake basin in the Lasarew Sea off the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land .
It has been named since 1997 at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . It is named after the German geodesist and polar researcher Karl Weiken (1895–1983), a participant in the Greenland expedition (1930–1931) Alfred Wegener .
Web links
- Weiken Basin in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Weiken Basin in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)