Shotton snow field

Shotton snow field
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location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range
Coordinates	80 ° 35 ′  S , 23 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 80 ° 35 ′  S , 23 ° 15 ′  W

The Shotton Snowfield is a large snowfield in the Shackleton Range in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It lies between the Herbert Mountains and the Pioneers Escarpment in the north and the Read Mountains in the south.

The United States Navy took its first aerial photographs in 1967. From 1968 to 1971 the British Antarctic Survey carried out a geodetic survey of the area. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1971 after the British geologist Frederick William Shotton (1906–1990), luminary of Quaternary geology and lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1949 to 1947.

Web links

• Shotton Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Shotton Snowfield on geographic.org (English)