Burgess Ice Rise
| Burgess Ice Rise | ||
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| location | Wilkins Ice Shelf , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 22 ′ 59 ″ S , 73 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Burgess Ice Rise is a small ice dome off the west coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises from the Wilkins Ice Shelf .
The British Antarctic Survey mapped it using the echo sounder data collected on February 11, 1967 during an overflight . Landsat images from February 1979 were used to correct its geographic positioning. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Robert William Burgess (* 1929) of the Royal Air Force , pilot of the Twin Otter with which the flyover was carried out in 1967.
Web links
- Burgess ice rise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Burgess Ice Rise on geographic.org (English)