Ellis Fjord () is a long narrow
fjord
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between
Breidnes Peninsula
Breidnes Peninsula () is a rocky peninsula, long and wide, between Ellis Fjord and Langnes Fjord in the Vestfold Hills. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and named "Bre ...
and
Mule Peninsula in the
Vestfold Hills
The Vestfold Hills are rounded, rocky, coastal hills, in extent, on the north side of Sorsdal Glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. The hills are subdivided by three west-trending peninsulas bounded by n ...
of Antarctica. It was photographed by the
Lars Christensen Expedition
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Origin
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(1936–37), and plotted by Norwegian cartographers as a
bay
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and a remnant lake which were called "Mulvik" (snout bay) and "Langevatnet" (long lake) respectively. Analysis by
John Roscoe
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Roscoe was born in 1861, during the height of the Victorian era. Roscoe's career heavil ...
of air photos taken by
U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) showed these two features to be connected. The feature was renamed Ellis Fjord by Roscoe after
Edwin E. Ellis, aerial photographer on U.S. Navy Operation Highjump flights over this area.
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Further reading
* J Grey, J Laybourn-Parry, RJG Leakey, and A McMinn,
Temporal patterns of protozooplankton abundance and their food in Ellis Fjord, Princess Elizabeth Land, Eastern Antarctica
', stuar. Coast. Shelf Sci.], vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 17–25, Jul 1997
* McMinn A, Heijnisj H, Harle K, McOrist G.,
Late-Holocene climatic change recorded in sediment cores from Ellis Fjord, eastern Antarctica
', The Holocene. 2001;11(3):291-300. https://doi.org/10.1191/095968301671577682
* McMinn, A., Gibson, J., Hodgson, D. et al.,
Nutrient limitation in Ellis Fjord, eastern Antarctica
', Polar Biol 15, 269–276 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00239847
* Kirkwood, J.M., Burton, H.R.,
Macrobenthic species assemblages in Ellis Fjord, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica
', Mar. Biol. 97, 445–457 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00397776
* McMinn, Andrew; Heijnisj, Henk; Harle, Kate; McOrist, Gordon;,
Late-Holocene climatic change recorded in sediment cores from Ellis Fjord, eastern Antarctica [2001]
', Holocene ISSN : 0959-6836
* A. McMinn, J. J. Bloxham & J. Whitehead (1998),
Modern surface sediments and non‐deposition in Ellis Fjord, eastern Antarctica
', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45:4, 645–652, https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099808728419
* Gibson, J. (1999),
The role of ice in determining mixing intensity in Ellis Fjord, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica
', Antarctic Science, 11(4), 419–426. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095410209900053X
* Australian Antarctic Division,
Locations of samples from Organic Lake, Deep Lake and Ellis Fjord in the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica
', Dataset
External links
Ellis Fjord
on USGS
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website
Ellis Fjord
on AADC website
Ellis Fjord
on SCAR
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website
Ellis Fjord
on marineregions.org
Ellis Fjord area map
References
Fjords of Princess Elizabeth Land
Ingrid Christensen Coast
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