Barnes Icefalls
| Barnes Icefalls | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 49 ′ S , 55 ° 53 ′ W | |
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The Barnes Icefalls are a glacier break in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Neptune Range , they are along the Washington Escarpment between Mount Dover and the Bennett Spiers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1955 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1965 after the US meteorologist James Clarkson Barnes (* 1937), scientific director of the Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1962.
Web links
- Barnes Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barnes Icefalls on geographic.org (English)