Drake Icefall

- 79.75 - 83.916666666667Koordinaten: 79 ° 45 '0 "S, 83 ° 55 ' 0 " W

The Drake Icefall (English Drake Icefall ) is about 3.7 km wide glacier in the west of the West Antarctic Heritage Range. It lies between the Søholt peaks in the north and the Edson Hills to the south and flows over a step in the terrain in the east, where it joins the Union Glacier.

Expeditions found in the area of ​​Drake Icefall, among other remains of trilobites.

Drake Icefall was named by a Ellsworthgebirgs Expedition of the University of Minnesota Summer 1962/63 by Benjamin Drake IV, a geologist and member of the expedition.

Soholt Peaks Ellsworth Mountains Digital Object Identifier
247073
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