Clow Island
| Clow Island | ||
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| Waters | Fryxellsee | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1 km | |
Clow Island is a 1 km long island in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It is located in the eastern part of Lake Fryxell in the Taylor Valley .
The island was originally a peninsula until the level of the Fryxellsee rose in the 1980s and the eastern section was flooded as a result. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the island in 2000 after Gary D. Clow of the United States Geological Survey , who studied the interactions of sand and ice in the year-round frozen lakes of the Taylor Valley from 1985 to 1986 and in two campaigns between 1993 and 1996 had studied the glacial geophysics of the Taylor Dome .
Web links
- Clow Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clow Island on geographic.org (English)