Atka Iceport

Atka Iceport

Atka Iceport (coord|70|35|S|7|51|W|) is an iceport about 10 miles (16 km) long and wide, marking a more-or-less permanent indentation in the front of the Ekstrom Ice Shelf on the coast of Queen Maud Land.

The feature was photographed from the air and mapped from these photos by Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE), 1951-52. It was named by personnel of the USS "Atka", under Commander Glen Jacobsen, which moored here in February 1955 while investigating possible base sites for International Geophysical Year operations. The term iceport was first suggested by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1956 to denote ice shelf embayments such as this one, subject to configuration changes, which may offer anchorage or possible access to the upper surface of an ice shelf via ice ramps along one or more sides of the feature.


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