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Hughes Basin

Field	Value
name	Hughes Basin
map	Antarctica
coordinates
terminus	Byrd Glacier

Hughes Basin () is a large basinlike névé which is bounded except to the south by the Ravens Mountains, Mount Henderson, Mount Olympus and Mount Quackenbush. The feature is 15 nmi long and the ice surface descends north–south from 2000 m near Mount Olympus to 1000 m near Darnell Nunatak, where there is discharge to Byrd Glacier.

Name

Hughes Basin was 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.

Location

Hughes Basin is a large circular feature in the southwest of the Britannia Range to the south of Mount Henderson. Features in or surrounding the névé include Mount Henderson, Mount Olympus, Mount Quackenbush, Mount Rummage, Darnell Nunatak and the Ravens Mountains..

Features

Menster Ledge

A relatively level benchlike feature which rises to 1800 m high, 6 nmi southwest of Mount Olympus in Hughes Basin. The feature is 2.5 nmi wide and is smoothly ice covered in the central and north portions; an abrupt ice and rock cliff forms the south end of the ledge. Named after Chaplain William J. Menster (Commander, U.S. Navy) of the flagship Mount Olympus in Operation Deep Freeze, 1946-47. The location of the ledge is in proximity to Byrd Glacier, Mount Olympus, and other features that memorialize leaders and ships of Operation High Jump.

Mount Quackenbush

Mount Rummage

Darnell Nunatak

References

Sources

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