Hughes Basin (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hughes Basin (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Basin (15)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A large basinlike neve in Britannia Range which is bounded except to the S by Ravens Mountains, Mount Henderson, Mount Olympus and Mount Quackenbush. The feature is 15 mi long and the ice surface descends N-S from 2000 m near Mount Olympus to 1000 m near Darnell Nunatak, where there is discharge to Byrd Glacier. Named after Terence J. Hughes of the Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Quaternary Studies, University of Maine, Orono, who made an intensive study of the Byrd Glacier, 1978-79, entailing photogrammetric determination of the elevation of the ice surface and its velocity, radio-echo sounding from LC-130 aircraft, and ground survey from fixed stations close to Byrd Glacier and moving stations on the glacier itself.
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