Landy Ice Rises

Landy Ice Rises is a group of six ice rises in the Bach Ice Shelf near the head of Stravinsky Inlet, on Alexander Island. They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee in 1980 after Michael Paul Landy, a British Antarctic Survey glaciologist from 1975 to 1981, who worked in the area from Adelaide station, 1975–76, and Rothera station, 1976–77.

Landy Ice Rises

Type: Water
Category: body of water
Location: Antarctica
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Latitude

-72.24953° or 72° 14′ 58″ south

Longitude

-70.55666° or 70° 33′ 24″ west

Open location code

27VFQC2V+58

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“Landy Ice Rises” goes by many names.

German: “Landy Ice Rises”

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