Walcott Firn Field
| Walcott Firn Field | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| surface | 560 km² | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 23 ′ S , 162 ° 40 ′ E | |
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 Map sheet Buckley Island from 1965 (reprint 1988), WALCOTT NÉVÉ roughly in the middle of the actual map |
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The Walcott Firn Field is a 560 km² firn field in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Transantarctic Mountains , it is bordered by the Marshall Mountains , Lewis Cliff and Mount Sirius and fed by the Prebble Glacier and the Wyckoff Glacier .
The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the geologist Richard Irving Walcott (* 1933), the leader of the group.
Web links
- Walcott Névé in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Walcott Névé on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1662 (English).