The Cranfield Icefalls are a series of about eight spectacular
icefall
An icefall is a portion of certain glaciers characterized by relatively rapid flow and chaotic crevassed surface, caused in part by gravity. The term ''icefall'' is formed by analogy with the word ''waterfall'', which is a similar phenomenon of t ...
s, in an east–west line, falling steeply from
Bucknell Ridge Bucknell Ridge () is a mountainous ridge just above the Cranfield Icefalls, extending east–west along the southern side of Darwin Glacier near its mouth. It was mapped by the Darwin Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
...
into the narrowest portion of
Darwin Glacier near its mouth. The feature was named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. It was the first expedition to reach the South ...
(1956–58) for
W.J. Cranfield, a member of the party.
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Icefalls of Oates Land
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