Blackwall Ice Stream
| Blackwall Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Ice flow | |
| length | 380 km | |
| width | Max. 20 km | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 52 ′ S , 35 ° 21 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Recovery glacier | |
The Blackwall ice flow is around 380 km long and 20 km wide river of ice in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It flows slightly S- shaped from an altitude of 1900 m from the continental ice sheet to the Recovery Glacier , which it reaches at 730 m between the Argentina Range in the Pensacola Mountains and the Whichaway Nunatakkern .
The ice flow is named after Hugh Blackwall Evans (1874–1975), Canadian assistant zoologist, hunter and taxidermist on the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink .
Web links
- Blackwall Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blackwall Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)