Spillway Icefall
| Spillway Icefall | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 1 ′ S , 166 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Spillway Icefall (English for overflow icefall ) is an imposing glacier break in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows through the center of the Duncan Mountains to the Amundsen coast and flows into the Ross Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him at the suggestion of the US geologist Edmund Stump (* 1946) from Arizona State University , who worked in this area between 1974 and 1975. The glacier break reminded Stump of the overflow of a dam .
Web links
- Spillway Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spillway Icefall on geographic.org (English)