Black Icefalls () is a line of icefalls at the south margin of
Chapman Snowfield Chapman Snowfield () is a large snowfield lying west of the central ridge in the Churchill Mountains, bounded to the north by Elder Peak and the massif surmounted by Mount Wharton, to the south by Soza Icefalls, Black Icefalls and the head of St ...
,
Churchill Mountains
The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier.
Seve ...
. The icefalls extend southwest from
Mount Massam to
Vance Bluff Vance Bluff () is a small ice-covered eminence near the polar plateau, 10 nautical miles (18 km) north of Laird Plateau. Its flat summit merges with the ice sheet to the north and west, but there is a steep cliff along the south side. Black I ...
, and were named in honor of
A. W. Black, a member of the 1959
Cape Hallett
Cape Hallett is a snow-free area ( Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north.
History
In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was dama ...
winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.
References
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Icefalls of Oates Land
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