Name details

Twin Crater

Twin Crater (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Twin Crater  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 134210

Feature type: Crater (2a)

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 crater with twin nested cones that rises behind McMurdo Station and 800m west of Crater Hill on Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF13

Named For

This crater was named Middle Crater by Frank Debenham of the British Antarctic Expedition (Terra Nova expedition, BrAE), 1910-13, apparently for its location in relation to First Crater and Crater Hill, but the name has fallen into disuse. Twin Crater, alluding to the nested cones in the crater, was applied as early as 1971 and the name has become established because of consistent use in current maps and reports. (The Committee for Place Naming in the Ross Sea Region, initially favoured retaining Middle Crater which is listed in the 1958 NZGB Gazetteer.)

Location

Latitude:
77° 50' 25.8" S
-77.84051°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
166° 41' 11.1" E
166.68641°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
126 m
Unknown precision

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_34 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:
20-Feb-2001

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