Jelbart lava tongue
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| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 59 ′ S , 73 ° 19 ′ E | |
The Jelbart lava tongue is a distinctive, cooled lava flow on the island of Heard in the southern Indian Ocean . On the Laurens Peninsula, it protrudes around 100 m into the sea south of Magnet Point .
Namesake is the physicist John Ellis Jelbart (1926-1951), who took part in a campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions to Heard in 1948 and on February 24, 1951 in the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949-1952) not far from the Maudheim base camp drowned.
Web links
- Jelbart Lava Tongue in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)