Ragotzkie Icefall
| Ragotzkie Icefall | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| width | Max. 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 3 ′ S , 158 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Alley glacier | |
The Ragotzkie Icefall is a 4 km wide glacial break in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range it forms the east-central part of the Ragotzkie Glacier , some of the ice masses of which it transfers to the Alley Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 based on the naming of the glacier of the same name. It is named after Robert Austin Ragotzkie (* 1924), project manager of the United States Antarctic Research Program to study the lakes in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Ragotzkie Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ragotzkie Icefall on geographic.org (English)