Clow Island

Clow Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 77°37′S 163°11′E / 77.617°S 163.183°E / -77.617; 163.183Coordinates: 77°37′S 163°11′E / 77.617°S 163.183°E / -77.617; 163.183
Country
None
Demographics
Population Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Clow Island is an island 1.1 kilometres (0.6 nmi) long in the eastern part of Lake Fryxell in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. This feature was a peninsula as recently as the 1980s when the rising level of the lake submerged the eastern part of the peninsula and created the island. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2000) after Gary D. Clow of the United States Geological Survey, who studied sand/ice interactions and sediment deposition in perennially ice-covered lakes in Taylor Valley, 1985–86, and glacier geophysics at Taylor Dome, 1993–94 through 1995–96.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Clow Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-11-16.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Clow Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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