Webb Icefall
| Webb Icefall | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Willett Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 16 ′ S , 160 ° 29 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Webb Glacier | |
The Webb Icefall is a glacier break in Victoria Land , East Antarctica . In the Willett Range, it feeds the western part of the head end of the Webb Glacier immediately south of Vishniac Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970, like the glacier of the same name, after Peter-Noel Webb, a participant in the 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions .
Web links
- Webb Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Webb Icefall on geographic.org (English)
Individual proof
- ^ Peter-Noel Webb , profile page on the Ohio State University homepage (accessed January 4, 2016).