Halzen Mesa (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Halzen Mesa (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mesa (2h)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An oblong islandlike mesa, 5 mi long and rising to 1345m, that is the largest and E-most of three mesas in the Insel Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land. The upper surface is relatively level but the periphery is marked by abrupt cliffs that rise 500 to 600 m above the floor of Barwick Valley and McKelvey Valley. Named by US-ACAN (2005) after Francis Halzen, Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, who (1988) conceived of AMANDA, the Antarctic muon and neutrino detector array at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; USAP principal investigator in a project to build the "IceCube" neutrino telescope at the South Pole Station in six field seasons beginning 2004-05.
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