Möller Ice Stream

Möller Ice Stream
Radarsat image of ice streams, including the Möller, flowing into the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

Möller Ice Stream (82°20′S 63°30′W / 82.333°S 63.5°W / -82.333; -63.5) is an Antarctic ice stream flowing north northeast into the Ronne Ice Shelf to the west of Foundation Ice Stream. The drainage basin of this ice stream is separated by Rambo Nunataks from the drainage basin of Foundation Ice Stream. The feature was delineated from U.S. Landsat imagery commissioned by the Institut fur Angewandte Geodasie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, recorded January–March, 1986. Named after Dietrich Möller, German engineer, Professor and Director, Institute for Land Survey, Technical University of Braunschweig, from 1972; Deputy Leader and in charge of geodetic work at Filchner Station on Ronne Ice Shelf, 1979-80.[1]

The Möller Ice Stream drains an area of 66 000 km² of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.[2]

See also

  • List of glaciers in the Antarctic
  • List of Antarctic ice streams

References

  1. ^ "Möller Ice Stream". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:10136. Retrieved 2009-11-10. 
  2. ^ Bingham R.G., Seigert M.J. (2009). "Quantifying subglacial bed roughness in Antarctica: implications for ice-sheet dynamics and history". Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 223–236. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.014. 

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Möller Ice Stream" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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