Quaternary Icefall
| Quaternary Icefall | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ S , 166 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Wohlschlag Bay | |
The Quaternary Icefall (English for Quartäreisfall ) is a glacier break in the northwest of the Antarctic Ross Island . It flows steeply from the ice sheet of Mount Bird in a westerly direction into Wohlschlag Bay , which it reaches 1.5 km south of Cinder Hill .
Participants in a campaign conducted from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the Quaternary mussel shells that were deposited in terminal moraines by the glacial break.
Web links
- Quaternary Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quaternary Icefall on geographic.org (English)