Ferrigno Ice Stream
| Ferrigno Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Type | Ice flow | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 43 ′ S , 83 ° 49 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Eltanin Bay | |
The Ferrigno-ice stream is a more than 24 km long river of ice in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Land . On the Bryan coast , it flows southwest of the Wirth Peninsula into Eltanin Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after the US geologist Jane G. Ferrigno (* 1941) from the United States Geological Survey , a specialist in the evaluation of satellite images for the creation of maps.
Web links
- Ferrigno Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ferrigno Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)