Orel Ice Fringe
| Orel Ice Fringe | ||
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| location | Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula , West Antarctica | |
| Type | Foreland glacier | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 46 ′ S , 62 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Errera Canal , Gerlache Street | |
The Orel Ice Fringe is a narrow foreland glacier on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the south side of the Errera Canal between Beneden Head and Porro Bluff .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on September 23, 1960 after the Austrian geodesist Eduard von Orel (1877-1941), who in 1905 had developed the first stereo autograph for creating maps from aerial photographs.
Web links
- Orel Ice Fringe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Orel Ice Fringe on geographic.org (English)