Brunt Ice Shelf

Coordinates: 75 ° 18 ′ 18 ″  S , 23 ° 53 ′ 1.3 ″  W.

Brunt Ice Shelf (2011)

The Brunt Ice Shelf is an ice shelf on the Caird coast of the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the eastern Weddell Sea , it lies between the Dawson-Lambton Glacier and the tongue of the Stancomb-Wills Glacier . Its edge is separately named as the Brunt ice front .

The ice shelf was discovered in March 1904 during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) led by William Speirs Bruce . The participants of the endurance expedition (1914-1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton sighted it in January 1915. The ice shelf was the location of the base camp of the Royal Society Expedition (1955-1959), which was then continued as Halley station and is now the British Antarctic Survey maintains. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the ice shelf in 1960 after the British meteorologist David Brunt (1886-1965), who was responsible for initiating the Royal Society Expedition in 1955.

Web links

• Brunt Ice Shelf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Brunt Ice Shelf on geographic.org (English)
• Satellite map of the Brunt Ice Shelf (PDF; 2.2 MB) accessed on May 23, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brunt Ice Front in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (accessed May 2, 2019).
2. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 239 (English).