Evans Ice Stream

The Evans Ice Stream flows south-eastwards into the Ronne Ice Shelf on the Orville Coast of southern Palmer Land between Cape Zumberge, and the Fowler Peninsula, in the British Antarctic Territory.

This ice stream was surveyed on radio echo-sounding flights by the British Antarctic Survey from 'Siple Station' on 21-23 January 1975. It is named after Dr Stanley Evans (b. 1929), a British physicist who, from 1961, developed the apparatus and technique for radio echo-sounding of ice caps and glaciers from the air and participated in radio echo-sounding flights from 'McMurdo Station' in New Zealand’s Ross Dependency, jointly organized by the US National Science Foundation and SPRI, 1969-70 and 1971-72; upper atmosphere research scientist, the Royal Society International Geophysical Year Expedition to Antarctica, Halley, 1955-56.

Location

• Location map: 76°20’38"S, 77°41’18"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Evans Ice Stream