Williams Ice Stream
| Williams Ice Stream | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 25 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 15 ′ S , 88 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Venable Ice Shelf | |
The Williams Ice Stream is a 25 km long ice stream on the Bryan Coast of West Antarctica Ellsworthland . It flows east of the Fletcher Peninsula to the Venable Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Richard S. Williams Jr. of the United States Geological Survey , a specialist in the air- and satellite-assisted investigation of geomorphological processes in global glacier fluctuations, especially in Iceland and Antarctica .
Web links
- Williams Ice Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Williams Ice Stream on geographic.org (English)