Flensing Icefall
| Flensing Icefall | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 55 ′ S , 163 ° 44 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lillie Glacier | |
The Flensing Icefall is a large glacier break on the eastern flank of the Bowers Mountains in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It is located south of the Platypus Ridge at the point where the Graveson and Rastorgujew glaciers meet in the Lillie glacier .
The northern group of from 1963 to 1964 campaign carried out under the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic expedition named it after the appearance of its parallel crevasses , the them to the strips of bacon in Abflensen (English: flensing ) reminded a Walkadavers.
Web links
- Flensing Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flensing Icefall on geographic.org (English)