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Kienle Cirque
Kienle
Cirque
is an ice-filled
cirque
,
wide
, the largest cirque on
the west
side of
White Island
, in the
Ross Archipelago
, Antarctica. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
after
Juergen Kienle
of the
Geophysical Institute
,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
,
a team
leader
for the
investigation
of
volcanic activity
and seismicity at
nearby
Mount Erebus
in six
seasons
, 1980–81 through 1985–86.