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Evans Ice Stream

Coordinates: 76°S 78°W / 76°S 78°W / -76; -78
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Evans Ice Stream
Map showing the location of Evans Ice Stream
Map showing the location of Evans Ice Stream
Location of Evans Ice Stream in Antarctica
Typeice stream
LocationEllsworth Land
Coordinates76°00′S 78°00′W / 76.000°S 78.000°W / -76.000; -78.000
Thicknessunknown
TerminusFilchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
Statusunknown

The Evans Ice Stream is a large ice stream draining from Ellsworth Land, between Cape Zumberge and Fowler Ice Rise, into the western part of the Ronne Ice Shelf. Mills Glacier flows adjacently into the ice stream from the southwest side.[1] The feature was recorded on February 5, 1974, in Landsat imagery. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Stanley Evans, a British physicist who, starting in 1961, developed apparatus for radio echo sounding of icecaps and glaciers from aircraft; he carried out upper atmosphere research at Brunt Ice Shelf, 1956–57.[2]

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  1. ^ "Obituaries (William James Mills)". Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Evans Ice Stream". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 6 March 2012.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Evans Ice Stream". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

76°S 78°W / 76°S 78°W / -76; -78