Fox Ice Stream
| Fox Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Eltanin Bay , Bellingshausen Lake | |
The Fox Ice Stream is a 10 km long ice stream on the Bryan Coast of West Antarctica Ellsworthland . It flows southwest of the Wirth Peninsula into Eltanin Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after Adrian Fox of the British Antarctic Survey , who was involved in the US-UK project to create glaciological maps and coastal changes on the Antarctic Peninsula in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Web links
- Fox Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fox Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)