Crary Ice Rise is an
Antarctic
The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and o ...
ice rise
An ice rise is a clearly defined elevation of the otherwise very much flatter ice shelf, typically dome-shaped and rising several hundreds of metres above the surrounding ice shelf
. An ice rise forms where the ice shelf touches the seabed due t ...
in the south-central part of the
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between h ...
. At 82°56'S, it is the southernmost ice rise. The feature was investigated by the USARP
Ross Ice Shelf Project Ross or ROSS may refer to:
People
* Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan
* Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning
* Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland
Places
* RoSS, the Republic of Sout ...
in the 1970s. The name came into use among USARP workers and honors
Albert P. Crary (1911–87), American
geophysicist
Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' so ...
.
See also
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Crary Bank
Crary Bank () is a northeast trending undersea bank of the central Ross continental shelf. It was named, in association with Crary Ice Rise, for A.P. Crary, an American geophysicist, the name being approved by the Advisory Committee for Undersea F ...
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Pictures of Crary Ice Rise
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Ice rises of Antarctica