Name details

Kienle Cirque

Kienle Cirque (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Kienle Cirque  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113697

Feature type: Cirque (15)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A broad 3km wide ice-filled cirque on the northwest of Mount Heine, the largest cirque on the west side of White Island, Ross Archipelago.

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after Juergen Kienle (d.), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, a team leader for the investigation of volcanic activity and seismicity at nearby Mount Erebus in six seasons, 1980-81 through 1985-86.

Location

Latitude:
78° 04' 26.1" S
-78.07391°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
167° 21' 57.3" E
167.36593°
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Altitude:
343 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 18_33 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Nov-1999

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