Brier Icefalls
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 15 ′ S , 155 ° 36 ′ E | |
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The Brier Icefalls are a 150 m high and 8 km wide glacial break in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , they are on the east side of Vantage Hill .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 2001 after Frank Brier of the National Science Foundation's Polar Program , who was responsible for the renovation and modernization of the facilities at McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1995 to 2001 .
Web links
- Brier Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brier Icefalls on geographic.org (English)