Ajax ice fall
| Ajax ice fall | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 4 ′ S , 58 ° 23 ′ W | |
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The Ajax Icefall is a glacier break on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Stenhouse Bluff and Ullmann Spur at the head of the Visca Anchorage Bay .
The glacier break was mapped during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the HMS Ajax , a Royal Navy light cruiser that was involved in the search for the crew of the RRS Discovery II missing on King George Island in January 1937 .
Web links
- Ajax Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ajax Icefall on geographic.org (English)