Evans Ice Stream
| Evans Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Type | Ice flow | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 0 ′ S , 78 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
The Evans Ice Stream is a large ice stream on the Zumberge coast of West Antarctica Ellsworthland . It flows between Cape Zumberge and the Fowler Ice Rise in the western section of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf .
The ice flow was discovered on Landsat recordings from February 5, 1974. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on December 8, 1977 after the British physicist Stanley Evans (* 1929), who in 1961 developed a device for echo sounding glaciers and ice sheets carried out the first measurement of the ozone layer in Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958) on the Brunt Ice Shelf .
Web links
- Evans Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Evans Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Stanley Evans , short biography on the British Library homepage (accessed March 15, 2017).