Demas ice tongue
| Demas ice tongue | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 17 ′ S , 103 ° 7 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Peacock Sound , Amundsen Sea | |
The Demas ice tongue is a 30 km long glacier tongue on the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It protrudes west of the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound into the Amundsen Sea .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) discovered them on a flyover in February 1940. They named them after Epaminondas James Demas (1905-1979), aircraft mechanic on the first (1928-1930) and second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) ) by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Demas Ice Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Demas Ice Tongue on geographic.org (English)