Cranfield Icefalls

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Cranfield Icefalls
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location Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 79 ° 56 ′  S , 158 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 79 ° 56 ′  S , 158 ° 40 ′  E
Cranfield Icefalls (Antarctica)
Cranfield Icefalls
drainage Darwin glacier
Carlyon Glacier map sheet from 1963, Cranfield Icefalls west of the center of the southern edge of the map

Carlyon Glacier map sheet from 1963, Cranfield Icefalls west of the center of the southern edge of the map

The Cranfield Icefalls are a series of around eight imposing glacial breaks in the Australian Antarctic Territory . They fall steeply from Bucknell Ridge into the narrowest section of Darwin Glacier near its confluence with the Ross Ice Shelf .

The team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named him after the New Zealand flight officer William Joseph Cranfield (* 1933) of the Royal New Zealand Air Force , a member of this team.

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