The Kelvin Crests () are a line of steep-sided elevations with ice-covered cliffs long, on the north side of
Airy Glacier
The Airy Glacier () is a glacier long and wide, flowing west to the northeast portion of Forster Ice Piedmont, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The glacier was first roughly surveyed by British Graham Land Expedition of 1936& ...
near its junction with
Forster Ice Piedmont Forster Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont lying landward of the Wordie Ice Shelf, along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of Airy, Seller, Fleming and Prospect Glaciers and is about long from north to south ...
on the west side of the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
. Roughly surveyed by the
British Graham Land Expedition in 1936–37, they were photographed from the air by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
Background
Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
in 1947. They were surveyed from the ground, from the southwest only, by members of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, in December 1958 and completely mapped by the
United States Geological Survey, 1974. The feature was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, a British physicist and engineer who made substantial improvements in the design of magnetic compasses, 1873–78 and invented the Thomson sounding machine in 1878.
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References
Ridges of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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