🏔️ Kendall Basin

Antarctica · Antarctica · 80.25°S, 25.65°W

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Kendall Basin is an ice-free cirque at the northwest end of the Herbert Mountains, in the Shackleton Range, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey, 1968–71. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after Percy Fry Kendall, an English glacial geologist, Professor of Geology at Leeds University in the early 20th century.

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Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)80.25°S, 25.65°W · view on map

Kendall Basin is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More glacial cirques in Antarctica

Arkell Cirque · Aurkjosen Cirque · Aurkleven Cirque · Aurkvaevane Cirques · Bingen Cirque · Bowen Cirque · Brattebotnen Cirque · Eskola Cirque · Fred Cirque · Goldschmidt 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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