Spillway Icefall

Spillway Icefall (85°1′S 166°22′W) is an icefall descending northward through central Duncan Mountains to Amundsen Coast on the coast of Antarctica.

The icefall cascades through the mountains giving the appearance of a turbulent spillway on a dam.

The descriptive name was approved by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) from a proposal by Edmund Stump, geologist, Arizona State University, who worked in this area, 1974–75.

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