Gipps Ice Rise
| Gipps Ice Rise | ||
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| height | 270 m | |
| location | Larsen Ice Shelf , Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 43 '56 " S , 60 ° 49' 43" W | |
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The Gipps Ice Rise is a 270 m high, roughly oval and 16 km long ice dome on the edge of the Larsen Ice Shelf off the Wilkins coast of the Palmerland . It is located 56 km northeast of Hearst Island .
William R. MacDonald (1925-1977) of the United States Geological Survey discovered him on December 18, 1966 during a flight over with a Lockheed Super Constellation of the United States Navy's VXE-6 squadron . The aerial photographs taken during this overflight were used to map the ice dome. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after Derek Raymond Gipps (* 1929), managing director of the British Antarctic Survey from 1961 to 1973.
The ice dome was the origin of a crack in Section C of the Larsen Ice Shelf, which in July 2017 led to the breaking of an approximately 6000 km² iceberg .
Web links
- Gipps Ice Rise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gipps Ice Rise on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Amos: Giant iceberg splits from Antarctic. News from the British Broadcasting Corporation dated July 12, 2017 (accessed November 5, 2017).