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Ajax Icefall

Coordinates: 62°4′S 58°23′W / 62.067°S 58.383°W / -62.067; -58.383
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Ajax Icefall' (62°4′S 58°23′W / 62.067°S 58.383°W / -62.067; -58.383) is an icefall between Stenhouse Bluff and Ullmann Spur at the head of Visca Anchorage, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1908–10. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for HMS Ajax, which assisted in the search for a boat crew from the Discovery II, missing on King George Island in January 1937.

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Ajax Icefall". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.