Grace Ice Stream
| Grace Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 24 ′ S , 71 ° 18 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Grace Ice Stream is an ice stream on the English coast of the Palmerland in the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows 20 km southeast of the Eklund Islands in a westerly direction to the George VI Ice Shelf in George VI Sound .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2018. It is named after the acronym for the German-American Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment .
Web links
- Grace Ice Stream in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)