Kershaw Ice Rumples
| Kershaw Ice Rumples | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 46 ′ S , 75 ° 31 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
The Kershaw Ice Rumples ( english are) a large area of Eishöckern before Zumberge Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . In the southwestern part of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf , the ice cusps lie between the Fletcher Ice Rise and the Korff Ice Rise .
They are first seen on aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in the 1960s and then on Landsat photographs taken between 1973 and 1974. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1977 after John Edward Giles Kershaw (1948–1990), chief pilot of the British Antarctic Survey from 1974 to 1975, who was killed in a plane crash on the Jones Ice Shelf on March 5, 1990 and was buried at the foot of Mount Kershaw , also named after him .
Web links
- Kershaw Ice Rumples in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kershaw Ice Rumples on geographic.org (English)