Weimar ice cusps
Weimar ice cusps | ||
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height | 150 m ( geoidal , not WGS84 ) | |
location | Ekström Ice Shelf , Princess Martha Coast , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 7 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Type | Ice cusps |
The Weimar ice cusp is an ice cusp ( English ice rumple ) in the southeast of the Ekström Ice Shelf on the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land .
The actual hump - the rock directly covered by ice - is 2.5 kilometers long (in a north-east-south-west direction) and 1 km wide (in a north-west-south-east direction), but only beyond an approximately 5 km wide deformation area that defines it surrounds on all sides, the ice shelf floats undisturbed.
The ice cusp was named in 2002 after the city of Weimar , which was European Capital of Culture in 1999 . "The cosmopolitan idea of the Capital of Culture idea is also characteristic of German Antarctic research," says the reasoning, which refers to the presence of the German Neumayer station in the region since 1981 .
The German State Committee for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and for the International Arctic Science Committee (LaSCAR / ISAC) accepted Robert Metzig's proposal for a name from the Alfred Wegener Institute on June 21, 2002 after the Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN ) of the German-speaking countries approved it on October 31, 2001.
source
- Standing Committee on Geographical Names : New German Name Proposals, Proposal No. 712. Accessed July 26, 2017