Tripp ice tongue
| Tripp ice tongue | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 34 ′ S , 162 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Tripp Bay , Ross Sea | |
The Tripp Ice Tongue is a glacier tongue on the Scott Coast of East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It occupies the northern half of Tripp Bay and is fed by several glaciers, including the Fry Glacier , Hedblom Glacier, and Oates-Piedmont Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named her in 1999 based on the name of the bay she occupied. Its namesake is the New Zealander Leonard Owen Howard Tripp (1862–1957), who was helpful to the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Tripp Ice Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tripp Ice Tongue on geographic.org