Van der Veen Ice Stream
| Van der Veen Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Type | Ice flow | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 50 ′ S , 130 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Whillans Ice Stream | |
The Van der Veen Ice Stream (formerly Ice Stream B1 ) is a large ice stream in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is a southeast tributary of the Whillans Ice Current .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Cornelis J. "Kees" Van der Veen (* 1956) from Ohio State University , who together with the Canadian geologist Ian Morley Whillans (1944-2001) carried out extensive studies from 1986 to 2001 West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Web links
- Van der Veen Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Van der Veen Ice Stream on geographic.org (English).