Blue Icefalls
| Blue Icefalls | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Forbidden plateau | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 19 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Andvord Bay | |
The Blue Icefalls ( English for Blue ice falls ) are steep and 6 km long glacier breaks off blue colored ice on the Danco Coast of the West Antarctic Graham Lands . They are located on the western edge of the Forbidden Plateau and above the easternmost side bay of Andvord Bay .
The ice falls owe their descriptive name to scientists from a Polish Antarctic expedition, which they named in 1995.
Web links
- Blue Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blue Icefalls on geographic.org (English)