Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue
The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 22°0′W / 75.000°S 22.000°W) is the extensive seaward projection of the Stancomb-Wills Glacier into the eastern Weddell Sea. The cliffed front of this feature was discovered in January 1915 by a British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. He named it "Stancomb-Wills Promontory," after Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills, one of the principal donors of the expedition. In 1969, US-ACAN amended the name to "Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue". This followed the U.S. Navy flight on which the glacier was discovered and the relationship with the glacier tongue was first observed.
The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Important Bird Area (74°06′15″S 23°05′31″W / 74.10417°S 23.09194°W) is a 352 ha site which has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 5,500 emperor penguins, as estimated from 2009 satellite imagery, on fast ice on the north-eastern coast of the glacier tongue, some 60 km west of Lyddan Island.
See also
References
- ^ Western Front Association website, Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills: the Clifftop Amazon, article by Laura Probert
- ^ Winterstoke Gardens & East Cliff Projects website, Who was Dame Janet?, article dated 31-01-2021
- ^ "Stancomb-Wills Glacier". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
External links
- This article incorporates public domain material from "Stancomb-Wills Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.