Bailey Ice Stream facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Bailey Ice Stream |
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 Location in Antarctica
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| Location | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf |
| Coordinates | 79°00′S 30°00′W / 79.000°S 30.000°W |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Filchner Ice Shelf |
| Status | unknown |
Bailey Ice Stream (79°0′S 30°0′W / 79.000°S 30.000°W) is an ice stream on the northern margin of the Theron Mountains, flowing west-southwest to the Filchner Ice Shelf. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941–65), a British Antarctic Survey glaciologist, who with two companions died in a crevasse accident during a radio echo sounding traverse inland from Halley Station on 12 October 1965. On an earlier traverse in April 1965, Bailey sounded the upper portion of this feature.
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