Cheetham Ice Tongue
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Cheetham Ice Tongue is a small ice tongue
on the east coast of Victoria Land
between Lamplugh Island
and Whitmer Peninsula
. It projects eastward into the Ross Sea
. The tongue appears to be nourished in part by Davis Glacier
and partly by ice draining from Lamplugh Island and Whitmer Peninsula. It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, under Shackleton, and named by him for Alfred B. Cheetham, third officer on the Nimrod.
Ice tongue
An ice tongue is a long and narrow sheet of ice projecting out from the coastline. An ice tongue forms when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into the ocean or a lake....
on the east coast of Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
between Lamplugh Island
Lamplugh Island
Lamplugh Island is an ice-capped island, 10 nautical miles long, lying 4 nautical miles north of Whitmer Peninsula, along the coast of Victoria Land. This feature was first sighted by the Discovery expedition led by Scott, 1901–04, but it was first charted as an island by the British Antarctic...
and Whitmer Peninsula
Whitmer Peninsula
Whitmer Peninsula is a broad ice-capped peninsula, about 7 nautical miles long and wide, between Cheetham Ice Tongue and Harbord Glacier Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-62. Named by Advisory...
. It projects eastward into the Ross Sea
Ross Sea
The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land.-Description:The Ross Sea was discovered by James Ross in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the Mt. Erebus volcano, in the east Roosevelt Island. The southern part is covered...
. The tongue appears to be nourished in part by Davis Glacier
Davis Glacier
Davis Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier, 15 nautical miles long, draining the northwest slopes of Mount George Murray and flowing to the coast of Victoria Land opposite the south end of Lamplugh Island. The glacier contributes to ice that flows north along the west side of Lamplugh...
and partly by ice draining from Lamplugh Island and Whitmer Peninsula. It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, under Shackleton, and named by him for Alfred B. Cheetham, third officer on the Nimrod.