University Moscow Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 67 ° 0 ′ S , 121 ° 0 ′ E
The University Moscow Ice Shelf ( Russian Шельфовый Ледник Московского Университета Schelfowy Lednik Moskowskowo Uniwersiteta ) is a 200 km long and narrow ice shelf off the Sabrina coast of the East Arctic . It lies between the Totten Glacier and Paulding Bay . The Dalton iceberg tongue extends north in the eastern part of the ice shelf.
Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used for the first partial mapping. Further aerial photographs were taken in 1958 during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and during a Soviet Antarctic expedition. The latter named the ice shelf after Lomonosov University Moscow .
Web links
- Moscow University Ice Shelf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Moscow University Ice Shelf on geographic.org