Brunt Icefalls
| Brunt Icefalls | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 55 ′ S , 25 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Brunt Ice Shelf | |
The Brunt Icefalls are a series of glacial breaks on the Caird coast of the East Antarctic Coatsland . They extend over a length of 80 km at the transition from the Antarctic continental ice to the Brunt Ice Shelf .
The icefalls were discovered on November 5, 1967 during a flight over with an LC-130 Hercules of the VXE-6 flight squadron of the United States Navy . The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on the aerial photographs they took. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 based on the name of the ice shelf of the same name. Indirect namesake is the Welsh meteorologist David Brunt (1886-1965).
Web links
- Brunt Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brunt Icefalls on geographic.org (English)