Counts Icefall
| Counts Icefall | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 13 ′ S , 90 ° 48 ′ W | |
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The Counts Icefall is a steep, heavily jagged glacier break at the interface between the Ford Massif and the Bermel Escarpment in the West Antarctic Thiel Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Lieutenant Commander William D. Counts of the United States Navy , who was killed with four other passengers in the crash of a Lockheed P-2 shortly after taking off from Wilkes Station on November 9, 1961 Life had come.
Web links
- Counts Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Counts Icefall on geographic.org (English)