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Shipwreck Moraine

Coordinates: 76°51′S 161°47′E / 76.850°S 161.783°E / -76.850; 161.783
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Shipwreck Moraine is an extensive moraine in a valley beside the Benson Glacier, between Black Pudding Peak and Mount Brogger, in Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. It was named by a 1989-90 New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme (NZARP) field party member Trevor Chinn to commemorate an incident at the site. On a descent to the moraine, a motor toboggan and a sledge ran onto blue ice thinly disguised by snow and careened out of control down the slope, tossing gear and personnel overboard as the sledge overturned.

76°51′S 161°47′E / 76.850°S 161.783°E / -76.850; 161.783 Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Shipwreck Moraine". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.  Edit this at Wikidata

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