Echelmeyer ice stream
| Echelmeyer ice stream | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 10 ′ S , 150 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Echelmeyer Ice Stream (formerly Eisstrom F ) is an ice stream in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is one of several large ice streams that drain the Marie Byrd Land to the Ross Ice Shelf . It flows west to the Shirase Coast north of the MacAyeal Ice Stream .
Teams from the United States Antarctic Research Program (USAP) surveyed the ice flow in several campaigns between 1983 and 1984. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2002 after the US geophysicist Keith A. Echelmeyer (1954-2010) from the University of Alaska , who between 1992 and 1995 was involved in studies by the USAP on ice flows in Marie Byrd Land and in other framework to fast-flowing glaciers in Alaska and Greenland .
Web links
- Echelmeyer Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Echelmeyer Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)