Orel Ice Fringe
Map showing the location of Orel Ice Fringe
Map showing the location of Orel Ice Fringe
TypeMountain Glacier[1]
Coordinates64°46′S 62°36′W / 64.767°S 62.600°W / -64.767; -62.600

Orel Ice Fringe is a strip of coastal ice in Antarctica in the Antarctic Peninsula along the Danco Coast, bordering the south side of Errera Channel between Beneden Head and Porro Bluff, on the west coast of Graham Land. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Eduard von Orel (1877–1941), Austrian surveyor who in 1905 designed the first stereoautograph for plotting maps directly from horizontal photographs.

References

  1. ↑ Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Trinity Peninsula area and South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, 1843-2001. [Reston, Va.]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. 2006. p. 28. ISBN 9780607964424.

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