Witches Cauldron
| Witches Cauldron | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Douglas Range | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 57 ′ 56 ″ S , 69 ° 42 ′ 19 ″ W | |
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The Witches Cauldron (English for witch's cauldron ) is an icy mountain cauldron in the north of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately west of Mount Egbert on the west side of the Douglas Range .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill sighted it from the air in 1937 and roughly mapped it. A more precise mapping was carried out in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey using aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it its descriptive name in 1961.
Web links
- Witches Cauldron in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Witches Cauldron on geographic.org (English)