Peterson Icefalls
| Peterson Icefalls | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 5 ′ S , 72 ° 44 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Amery Ice Shelf | |
The Peterson Icefalls are glacier breaks on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . They are located at the mouth of the Stevenson Glacier in the eastern part of the Amery Ice Shelf .
The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919–2007) mapped it in 1952 using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after J. C. Peterson Jr., a crew member on the flights used to take these aerial photographs.
Web links
- Peterson Icefalls in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peterson Icefalls on geographic.org