Stancomb-Wills Glacier
| Stancomb-Wills Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Emperor penguins breed in the IBA | |
Map showing the location of Stancomb-Wills Glacier Map showing the location of Stancomb-Wills Glacier Location of Stancomb-Wills Glacier in Antarctica | |
| Type | cirque |
| Location | Coats Land |
| Coordinates | 75°18′S 19°00′W / 75.300°S 19.000°W / -75.300; -19.000 |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Weddell Sea |
| Status | unknown |
The Stancomb-Wills Glacier is a large glacier that debouches into the eastern Weddell Sea southward of Lyddan Island. The glacier was discovered in the course of the U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the coast on November 5, 1967, and was plotted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from photographs obtained at that time. The name was applied by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1969.
The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 22°0′W / 75.000°S 22.000°W / -75.000; -22.000 ) is the extensive seaward projection of the Stancomb-Wills Glacier into the eastern Weddell Sea. The cliffed front of this feature was discovered in January 1915 by a British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. He named it "Stancomb-Wills Promontory," after Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills, one of the principal donors of the expedition.[1] [2] In 1969, US-ACAN amended the name to "Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue". This followed the U.S. Navy flight on which the glacier was discovered and the relationship with the glacier tongue was first observed.
The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Important Bird Area (74°06′15′′S 23°05′31′′W / 74.10417°S 23.09194°W / -74.10417; -23.09194 ) is a 352 ha site which has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 5,500 emperor penguins, as estimated from 2009 satellite imagery, on fast ice on the north-eastern coast of the glacier tongue, some 60 km west of Lyddan Island.[3]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Western Front Association website, Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills: the Clifftop Amazon, article by Laura Probert
- ^ Winterstoke Gardens & East Cliff Projects website, Who was Dame Janet?, article dated 31-01-2021
- ^ "Stancomb-Wills Glacier". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
External links
[edit ]- Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Stancomb-Wills Glacier". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey. Edit this at Wikidata
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