Dean Cirque
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Apollo Peak and Pentecost Cirque.
Apollo Peak
Peak
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.
Pentecost Cirque
Valley
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.
Minotaur Pass
Mountain saddle
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prentice Plateau and Labyrinth.
Prentice Plateau
Locality
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.
Labyrinth
Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Labyrinth is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition because the eroded dolerite of which it is formed gives an appearance of a labyrinth.
Dean Cirque
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 1,481 metres
- Description: cirque in the Olympus Range of Antactica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.5° or 77° 30′ southLongitude
160.75° or 160° 45′ eastElevation
1,481 metres (4,859 feet)Named after
Christopher T. DeanOpen location code
2VJ2GQ22+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 11054055724OpenStreetMap feature
natural=valleyGeoNames ID
6639029Wikidata ID
Q5246072
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Dean Cirque” goes by many names.
- German: “Dean Cirque”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dean Cirque”
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