Gillett Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 69 ° 35 ′ S , 159 ° 42 ′ E
The Gillett Ice Shelf is a small Antarctic ice shelf on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is not far from the Wilson Hills in an unnamed bay between the Anderson Peninsula and another peninsula on which the Holladay Nunatakker are located.
The area was mapped through the United States Geological Survey and aerial photography from the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the ice shelf in 1970 after Captain Clarence R. Gillett (* 1929), who worked on research icebreakers for the United States Coast Guard between December 1966 and May 1970 .
Web links
- Gillett Ice Shelf in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Gillett Ice Shelf on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 629 (English).