Hughes Basin

Hughes Basin (80°19′S 156°18′E / 80.317°S 156.300°E / -80.317; 156.300Coordinates: 80°19′S 156°18′E / 80.317°S 156.300°E / -80.317; 156.300) is a large basinlike névé in the Britannia Range of Antarctica which is bounded except to the south by the Ravens Mountains, Mount Henderson, Mount Olympus and Mount Quackenbush. The feature is 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and the ice surface descends north–south from 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) near Mount Olympus to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) near Darnell Nunatak, where there is discharge to Byrd Glacier. It was named after Terence J. Hughes of the Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Quaternary Studies at the University of Maine, Orono, who made an intensive study of the Byrd Glacier in 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.^[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Hughes Basin" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).