Murchison Cirque (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Murchison 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:
on S side of Holmes Summit, Read Mountains, Shackleton Range, was photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and surveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71; in association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, named after Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (1792-1871), British geologist and pioneer worker on Palaeozoic rocks in Wales, where he erected the Silurian system; President, RGS, 1843-44, 1851-52 and 1855-58; Director General, Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1855-71 (APC, 1974, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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