Reynolds Ice Rise
| Reynolds Ice Rise (Reynolds Island) | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 3 ′ 48 ″ S , 66 ° 59 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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The Reynolds Ice Rise is a small ice dome on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km southeast of the Wade Ice Rise .
Landsat images from 1974 to 1979 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1979 after John Michael Reynolds (* 1955), glaciologist of the British Antarctic Survey from 1978 to 1983, who used the Landsat recordings to study the breakup of the Wordie Ice Shelf .
As a result of the retreat of the Wordie Ice Shelf , a rock pedestal was discovered under the ice dome. Since then, the property has been considered an island in the United Kingdom and has been called Reynolds Island since 2010 .
Web links
- Reynolds ice rise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reynolds Ice Rise on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reynolds Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (accessed February 19, 2020).