Landy Ice Rises
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 15 ′ S , 70 ° 33 ′ W | |
The Landy Ice Rises are a group of six ice domes on the coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise out of the brook ice shelf near the head of Stravinsky Inlet .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980 after the glaciologist Michael Paul Landy (* 1954), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey from 1975 to 1981 and carried out research in this area from 1975 to 1977.
Web links
- Landy Ice Rises in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Landy Ice Rises on geographic.org (English)