Lewis snowfield
| Lewis snowfield | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Walton Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 25 ′ S , 71 ° 20 ′ W | |
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The Lewis Snowfield is a low and undulating snowfield in the south of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It extends from the Walton Mountains westward to the Beethoven Peninsula and from the Bach Ice Shelf north to the Wilkins Ice Shelf .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1975 after Ernest Gordon Lewis (1918-2006), Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1971 to 1975.
Web links
- Lewis Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lewis Snowfield on geographic.org (English)