Haselton Icefall
| Haselton Icefall | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Willett Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 21 ′ S , 160 ° 46 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Webb Lake | |
The Haselton Icefall is a glacier break in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows as part of the Haselton Glacier from the Willett Range between the Gibson Spur and the Apocalypse Peaks to Webb Lake in the Barwick Valley .
The American geologist Parker Emerson Calkin (1933-2017) named him after his assistant George M. Haselton of the United States Antarctic Program , who supported him in a research campaign from 1961 to 1962 in this region.
Web links
- Haselton Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haselton Icefall on geographic.org (English)