🏔️ Aurkvaevane Cirques

Antarctica · Antarctica · 71.87°S, 14.43°E

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The Aurkvaevane Cirques are a set of three cirques with moraine-covered floors, indenting the west side of Kvaevefjellet Mountain in the Payer Mountains of Queen Maud Land. They were discovered and plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39, and re-plotted from air photos and from surveys, and named, by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60.

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CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)71.87°S, 14.43°E · view on map

Aurkvaevane Cirques is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More glacial cirques in Antarctica

Arkell Cirque · Aurkjosen Cirque · Aurkleven Cirque · Bingen Cirque · Bowen Cirque · Brattebotnen Cirque · Eskola Cirque · Fred Cirque · Goldschmidt Cirque · Grautskåla Cirque.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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