Bailey Ice Stream
| Bailey Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Theron Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 0 ′ S , 30 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
The Bailey Ice Stream is an ice stream in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It flows along the northern edge of the Theron Mountains in a west-southwest direction to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the glaciologist Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941-1965) of the British Antarctic Survey , who on October 12, 1965 with two companions in the course of an echo sounder measurement series started from Halley Station , including in the upper section of the Ice stream, died when falling into a crevasse .
Web links
- Bailey Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bailey Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)