Inhibit Ice Rise
| Inhibit Ice Rise | ||
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 Satellite image of Berkner Island with the Hemmen Ice Rise (top left) |
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| location | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf , Weddell Sea | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 48 ′ 15 ″ S , 49 ° 6 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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The Hemmen Ice Rise is a 17.5 km long ice dome near the northern edge of the Antarctic Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf . It rises immediately to the northwest of Berkner Island .
The object is recorded for the first time on a map drawn up by the American polar explorer Finn Ronne in 1957 at Ellsworth Station . It was identified in the early 1970s using Landsat recordings. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1977 to George Ethelbert inhibiting (* 1926), Secretary of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in 1972, which as a meteorologist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1953 to 1954 on the station in Admiralty Bay operates and had headed the station on Deception Island from 1953 to 1954 .
Web links
- Hemmen Ice Rise in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hemmen Ice Rise on geographic.org