Back Cirque (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Back Cirque (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cirque
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
NE of Sloman Glacier, NE Adelaide Island, following survey by FIDS from Adelaide, 1961-62, and geological work by BAS, 1980-81, was named after Eric Kenneth Prentice Back (b.1942), BAS meteorological observer, Adelaide, 1964-65, 1970-71, Grytviken, 1965-66, Rothera, 1976-77; Base Commander, Signy, 1974-75, Halley, 1975-76, Faraday, 1977-78, Rothera, 1978-79 (APC,1986, p.3).
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