Hemmen Ice Rise is an ice rise 18 km long and 2 to 4 km wide, with an estimated area of 55 km², located 17 km off the northwest corner of Berkner Island

Berkner Island

Berkner Island or Berkner Ice Rise or Hubley Island is a high and completely ice-covered large island about long and wide in Antarctica, with an area of . It is the second largest island of both Antarctica and the British Antarctic Territory, after Alexander Island. It is also located within the...

 in Ronne Ice Shelf. The feature appears for the first time on a chart prepared at Ellsworth Station

Ellsworth Station

The Ellsworth Station was an Antarctic base established by the United States during the 1957 International Geophysical Year. The base was soon handed over to Argentina and subsequently abandoned and covered with ice in 1962.-History:...

 in 1957 by Captain Finn Ronne

Finn Ronne

Finn Ronne was a U.S. Antarctic explorer.-Background:Finn Ronne was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. His father, Martin Rønne , was a polar explorer and served in Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to the South Pole...

, USNR. The ice rise was subsequently noted in U.S. Earth Resources Technology Satellite imagery. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for George E. Hemmen, Executive Secretary of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, 1972; he served with Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) as meteorological observer at Admiralty Bay, 1952–53, and Base Leader at Deception Island, 1953–54, and with the Royal Society Antarctic Expedition, 1956.