Back Cirque

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Back Cirque is a bowl-shaped valley (a cirque) that opens to the east on Adelaide Island, north of Sloman Glacier in the island’s southeast, near the Antarctic Peninsula. The cirque sits on the south side of a ridge that runs from the southeast part of Mount Liotard. It was named in 1982 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Eric K.P. Back of the British Antarctic Survey, who worked at Adelaide Station and Grytviken in 1964–65 and later served as BAS Base Commander at Signy (1974–75), Halley (1975–76), Faraday (1977–78), and Rothera (1978–79).