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Shotton Snowfield

Coordinates: 80°35′S 23°15′W / 80.583°S 23.250°W / -80.583; -23.250
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Shotton Snowfield is a large snowfield between Herbert Mountains and Pioneers Escarpment on the north and Read Mountains on the south, in the Shackleton Range. The U.S. Navy obtained aerial photographs of the feature in 1967 and it was surveyed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968-71. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1971, in association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, after Frederick William Shotton (1906–90), British Quaternary geologist and Professor of Geology, University of Birmingham, 1949-74.

80°35′S 23°15′W / 80.583°S 23.250°W / -80.583; -23.250 Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Shotton Snowfield". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.  Edit this at Wikidata