Coker Ice Rise
| Coker Ice Rise | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 4 ′ 8 ″ S , 67 ° 6 ′ 42 ″ W | |
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The Coker Ice Rise is a small ice dome on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the Wordie Ice Shelf 10 km west-northwest of the Triune Peaks .
Aerial photographs were taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements in 1958. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Walter B. Coker of the United States Navy , a radio operator at Palmer Station in the Antarctic winter of 1969.
Web links
- Coker ice rise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Coker Ice Rise on geographic.org (English)