Nineteen-sixteen Snowfield
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 10 ′ S , 36 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Antarctic Bay | |
The Nineteen-sixteen Snowfield ( English for 1916 snow field ) is a snow field on the north coast of South Georgia . It lies south of the head end of Antarctic Bay between Filchner Ridge and Fortuna Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2014 in memory of the year 1916 , in which Ernest Shackleton , Tom Crean and Frank Worsley made the first crossing of South Georgia as part of the Endurance Expedition (1914-1917).
Web links
- Shackleton's Crossing . Description of the snowfield on the information pages of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
- Nineteen-sixteen Snowfield . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)