Humphrey's Ice Rise
| Humphrey's Ice Rise | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 13 ′ 59 ″ S , 66 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Humphreys Ice Rise is an ice dome off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It protrudes from the Müller Ice Shelf in the southwestern part of the Lallemand Fjord on
Aerial photographs were taken during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements between 1956 and 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American atmospheric physicist William Jackson Humphreys (1862-1949).
Web links
- Humphreys ice rise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Humphreys Ice Rise on geographic.org (English)