Publications Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 69 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 75 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E
The Publications Ice Shelf is one of the smaller ice shelves in East Antarctica . In the southeast of Prydz Bay , it stretches 56 km along the Ingrid Christensen coast of Princess Elisabeth Land . Its area is given as 1600 km².
The ice shelf was discovered during the Norwegian Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , but was not given a name at that time. During the US operation Highjump (1946–1947), the ice shelf was flown over and measured photogrammetrically . The American geographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919–2007), who was involved in evaluating the aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump , mapped the ice shelf and the glaciers that feed the ice shelf and in 1952 gave the name Publication Glacier Tongues ( English for Publication- Glacier tongues ). The name refers to the glaciers that flow into it, all of which are named after scientific journals from southwest to northeast: Polar Times Glacier , Il Polo Glacier , Polar Research Glacier , Polar Record Glacier and Polarårboken Glacier . In 1973 the name was changed to Publications Ice Shelf .
Web links
- Antarctic Gazetteer, Australian Antarctic Division. Retrieved November 24, 2009
Individual evidence
- ^ A b John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1258 (English)
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1323 (English)