Wilkes Amphitheater
| Wilkes Amphitheater | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 2 '44 " S , 161 ° 47' 34" O | |
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The Wilkes amphitheater is a large mountain basin in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is on the east side of Mount Smith .
Scientists from a 1962 to 1963 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him. The namesake is the New Zealand entomologist and later activist Owen Wilkes (1940-2005), who was involved in this campaign and climbed the north side of the mountain basin.
Web links
- Wilkes Amphitheater in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)