Dotson Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 74 ° 24 ′ S , 112 ° 22 ′ W
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The Dotson Ice Shelf is a 50 km wide ice shelf before Bakutis- and Walgreen Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . It lies between the Martin and Bear Peninsula .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial shots of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) in January 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named in 1967 by William A. Dotson, duty officer of Eiserkundungseinheit in the oceanographic department of the United States Navy , who died on November 27, 1964 in a plane crash while on duty in Alaska .
Web links
- Dotson Ice Shelf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Dotson Ice Shelf on geographic.org