Miller Ice Rise
| Miller Ice Rise | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 37 ′ 1 ″ W | |
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The Miller Ice Rise was a 3 km long and 1.5 km wide ice dome off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It loomed around 1974 at a distance of 16 miles west-northwest of the Triune Peaks near the front of the Wordie Ice Shelf in the southern section of Marguerite Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1948 and 1949. Aerial photographs were taken in 1966 by the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1977 after Richard Miller, chief radio operator at Palmer Station in the Antarctic winter of 1968. The ice dome disappeared in 1998 when the Wordie Ice Shelf receded.
Web links
- Miller Ice Rise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Miller Ice Rise on geographic.org (English)