Iceport

A Eishafen is a more or less year-round ice-free bay on the ice shelf, which can serve as a natural harbor. However, can be rendered useless by the Eiskalben the surrounding ice shelf of Eishafen for a long time. This Eishäfen are usually the only accessible points for icebreaker to deliver the supplies for Antarctic stations. As the ice edge in the area even higher towers.

The term Eishafen (English Iceport ) was first proposed by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US- ACAN ) as a description of indentations in the ice shelf, the shape can be changed to anchors to attach and to the top of the shelf ice sheet reached by ramps.

One of the most Eishäfen lies in the Bay of Whales. Roald Amundsen used the natural harbor as a base camp of his Antarctic Expedition 1911 /12. The Atka Bay is known as Eishafen, since the supplies for the Neumayer Station III is folded.

In 1973, the U.S. Navy engineers designed the first floating ice pier at McMurdo Station, which is the southernmost port of Antarctica. Since then, the importance of Eishäfen has decreased, however it is not gone.

Eishäfen

• Atka Bay
• Bay of Whales
• Erskine Bay
• Norselbukta