Hannan Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 67 ° 36 ' S , 47 ° 35' E
The Hannan Ice Shelf is a 29 km wide ice shelf off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is fed by the Molle and Kichenside glaciers and, apart from their north side, encloses McKinnon Island .
Aerial photographs were taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). An ANARE team led by the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913–2003) first visited the ice shelf in October 1957. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Francis Thomas Hannan (1911–1988), a meteorologist at Mawson Station in 1957.
Web links
- Hannan Ice Shelf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Hannan Ice Shelf on geographic.org