Name StatusApprovedFeatureCraterNZ Gazette Reference2001 (48) p.1094DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionFeature # 79 in ACAN minutes of 19/06/2000. A crater with twin nested cones that rises behind McMurdo Station and 0.5 mi W of Crater Hill on Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island. This crater was named Middle Crater by Frank Debenham of the BrAE, 1910-13, apparently for its location in relation to First Crater and Crater Hill, but the name has fallen into disuse. Twin Crater, alluding to the nested cones in the crater, was applied as early as 1971 and the name has become established because of consistent use in current maps and reports. (The Committee for Place Naming in the Ross Sea Region, favours Middle Crater which is listed in the 1958 NZGB Gazetteer.)
