Erskine Iceport
Discovery and naming
United States Navy Operation Deep Freeze I personnel on the USS Glacier made a running survey of this coast in March 1956. They applied the name "General Erskine Bay" for General Graves B. Erskine, United States Marine Corps, director of the U.S. Navy Office of Special Operations, who assisted in formulating expedition plans and policy. The term "iceport" was suggested by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1956 to denote an ice shelf indentation, 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.
See also
References
- ^ "Erskine Iceport". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Erskine Iceport". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.