MacAyeal Ice Stream
| MacAyeal Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 0 ′ S , 143 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The MacAyeal Ice Stream (formerly Ice Stream E ) is an ice stream in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is one of several large ice streams that drain the Marie Byrd Land to the Ross Ice Shelf . It flows in a westerly direction to the interface between the Shirase Coast and the Siple Coast between the Bindschadler Ice Current and the Echelmeyer Ice Current .
Teams from the United States Antarctic Research Program (USAP) surveyed the ice flow in several campaigns between 1983 and 1984. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2002 after the US geophysicist Douglas R. MacAyeal (* 1954) from the University of Chicago , who between 1989 and 2002 carried out studies by the USAP in the Ross Sea region , the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the ice flows in the Marie-Byrd-Land participated.
Web links
- MacAyeal Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- MacAyeal Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)