Doake Ice Rumples () is an area of disturbed ice in the Ronne Ice Shelf, extending for about in a northwest–southeast direction between Korff Ice Rise and Henry Ice Rise. It was first visited and mapped in part by the US–

International Geophysical Year The International Geophysical Year (IGY; ), also referred to as the third International Polar Year, was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War w ...

geophysical traverse party from

Ellsworth Station Ellsworth Scientific Station (, or simply ''Estación Ellsworth'' or ''Base Ellsworth'') was a permanent, all year-round originally American, then Argentine Antarctic scientific research station named after American polar explorer Lincoln Ellswo ...

1957–58, led by

Edward Thiel Edward C. Thiel (May 4, 1928 – November 9, 1961), was a geologist from the University of Wisconsin and chief seismologist at Ellsworth Station Antarctica, from 1956 to 1958. He was leader of the traverse party that discovered the Thiel Trough subm ...

, and was further delineated from U.S.

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imagery taken 1974 and from radio echo sounding by the

British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of list of global issues, global issues, and to provide an active prese ...

(BAS) in 1981. It was named by the

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after Christopher S.M. Doake, a senior BAS glaciologist from 1973, who has contributed to an understanding of the morphology and dynamics of the Ronne Ice Shelf.

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Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Ice rises of Queen Elizabeth Land {{QueenElizabethLand-geo-stub