Next: NGC 6221 Up: The Group of Nearby Previous: NGC 4945 . ... K. Jones et al. (1996, in prep.) and Koribalski & Whiteoak (1996) only recently mapped Circinus with several configurations of the ATCA; a few preliminary results are presented here. ... The elongated central disk (length 5) indicates a bar, and the central `hole' is caused by H I absorption against the bright central region of Circinus (see Fig. ... Figure: H I absorption spectrum toward the nuclear region of the Circinus galaxy. ...