Drake Icefall [SEP] continent
Drake Icefall
Drake Icefall is an icefall 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide between the Soholt Peaks and the Edson Hills in Antarctica, draining eastward from the plateau to join the general flow of Union Glacier through the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It was named by the University of Minnesota Ellsworth Mountains Party, 1962–63, for Benjamin Drake IV, a geologist and member of the party.
Millington-Drake in 1949.
Ajax Icefall at the head of Visca Anchorage, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands is named for HMS Ajax, which assisted in the search for a boat crew from the "Discovery II", missing on King George Island in January 1937.
In popular culture.
The author Warren Tute′s service on HMS "Ajax" during the 1930s formed the background for his novel "The Cruiser". Like" Ajax", the novel's fictional HMS "Antigone" was