Minnehaha ice falls

Minnehaha ice falls
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Gonville and Caius Range
Coordinates	77 ° 2 ′ S , 162 ° 24 ′ E Coordinates: 77 ° 2 ′ S , 162 ° 24 ′ E
drainage	New Glacier

The Minnehaha Icefalls are severely jagged glacial breaks in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range they are on the steep western slopes of Mount England and form the southern tributary of the New Glacier immediately west of its confluence with Granite Harbor .

The so-called Western Group around the Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963) mapped them during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The naming was made at the suggestion of the Australian geologist Frank Debenham , another participant in the research trip. It is named after the legendary Indian female figure Minnehaha from the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by the American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1855.

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