Kebira Crater
Kebira Crater is the name given to a circular topographic feature that was identified in 2007 by Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim using satellite imagery, Radarsat-1, and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data in the Sahara desert.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kebira Crater
- Type: Locality
- Description: name that has recently been proposed for a circular topographic feature in the Sahara desert
- Category: desert
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.63812° or 24° 38′ 17″ northLongitude
24.97124° or 24° 58′ 17″ eastOpen location code
7GP6JXQC+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 5301405334OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q1737677
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Kebira Crater” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الفوهة الكبيرة”
- Arabic: “فوهة الكبيرة”
- Arabic: “فوهة كبيرة”
- Chinese: “庫卜拉撞擊坑”
- Czech: “Kebira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفوهه الكبيره”
- French: “Cratère Kebira”
- German: “Kebira-Krater”
- Hebrew: “מכתש כבירה”
- Hungarian: “Kebira kráter”
- Italian: “Cratere Kebira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kebirakrateret”
- Polish: “Krater Kabira”
- Polish: “Krater Kebira”
- Slovak: “Kebira”
- Slovak: “Kebíra”
- Slovenian: “Krater Kebira”
- Spanish: “Cráter de Kebira”
- Swedish: “Kebira (krater)”
- Swedish: “Kebira”
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