Cheetham ice tongue
| Cheetham ice tongue | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 45 ′ S , 162 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
The Cheetham Ice Tongue is a short tongue of glacier on the Scott Coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flows into the Ross Sea between Lamplugh Island and the Whitmer Peninsula . The tongue of the glacier is fed in part by Davis Glacier and by ice masses that drain from Lamplugh Island and the Whitmer Peninsula.
It was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the seaman Alfred Cheetham , who was a member of Shackleton's and Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expeditions on several occasions .
See also
Web links
- Cheetham Ice Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cheetham Ice Tongue on geographic.org (English)
- Cheetham Ice Tongue. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 83 (English)