Dickson Icefalls
| Dickson Icefalls | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Flood range | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 2 ′ S , 133 ° 25 ′ W | |
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The Dickson Icefalls are a glacier break at an altitude of 1,800 to 2,000 m in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Flood Range , they flow north between Mount Moulton and Mount Bursey .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Donald T. Dickson, glaciologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on the Byrd- Station from 1962 to 1963.
Web links
- Dickson Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dickson Icefalls on geographic.org (English)