Cavendish Icefalls
| Cavendish Icefalls | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 49 ′ S , 161 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Taylor Glacier | |
The Cavendish Icefalls are a glacier break of the Taylor Glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They are between the Solitary Rocks and the Cavendish Rocks .
The icefalls were named by the Canadian polar explorer Charles Seymour Wright (1887-1975), participant of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), after the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge , where he carried out much of his research.
Web links
- Cavendish Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cavendish Icefalls on geographic.org (English)