Black ice falls
| Black ice falls | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 46 ′ S , 157 ° 14 ′ E | |
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The Black Icefalls are a series of glacial breaks in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Churchill Mountains they lie on the southern edge of the Chapman snowfield and extend from Mount Massam in a south-westerly direction to Vance Bluff .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on February 27, 2003 after the geophysicist Alexander William Black, who was part of the team at the station at Cape Hallett in the Antarctic winter of 1959 .
Web links
- Black Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Black Icefalls on geographic.org (English)