COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

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Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue

Place ID: 13917
Name ID: 137624

Feature type: Tongue (12)

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

• Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue (United States of America)

Narrative

The floating part of the NW extension into BAT of Stancomb-Willsstraumen, Dronning Maud Land, flowing into the Weddell Sea between Brunt Ice Shelf and Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, W of Lyddan Ice Rise, Caird Coast. The floating glacier tongue of this feature was roughly charted by BITAE, 15 January 1915, and named Stancomb Wills Promontory after Miss (later Dame) Janet Stancomb-Wills (d. 1932), a prime supporter of the expedition, after whom one of the Endurance"s boats was also named. Stancomb-Wills Shelf Ice (AGS map, [1929c]). Stancomb-Wills Ice Tongue (USAF chart 1806, 1947). Following the voyage of the Argentine icebreaker General San Martín along this coast in January 1955, it was reported that the glacier tongue had calved along the line of Brunt Ice Front (Thomas, 1957c, p.354). In January 1956, TAE reported a concentration of icebergs in the area where the seaward part of the floating glacier tongue of this feature had disintegrated. Stancomb(e)(-)Wills Ice Promontory (USHO, 1956, p.79; Fuchs and Hillary, 1958e, p.24). Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue, referring to the seaward, mainly floating part of the feature in 75°00"S 22°00"W (AGS map, 1970; Alberts, 1977, p.47). Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue, referring to the floating part in BAT, W of 20°00"W (APC, 2013).

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