Scuppers Icefalls () is a prominent line of icefalls, 5 nautical miles (9 km) long and nearly 400 m high, between
Mount Razorback
Mount Razorback () is a craggy mountain rising to about 1,600 m east of Staten Island Heights in the Convoy Ridge, Victoria Land. The descriptive name was applied by the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antar ...
and
Mount Nespelen in
Convoy Range
Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the range has a nearly flat plateau-like summit, extending south from the Fry Saddle and ending at Mackay Glacier. The range has steep cliffs on its east side, but it slopes gently i ...
,
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
. The icefalls are the main outflow draining from
Flight Deck Neve
Flight or flying is the process by which an object moves through a space without contacting any planetary surface, either within an atmosphere (i.e. air flight or aviation) or through the vacuum of outer space (i.e. spaceflight). This can be ...
into
Benson Glacier
Benson Glacier () is a glacier about long, draining the east part of Flight Deck Névé and continuing east between Fry Glacier and Mackay Glacier into the north part of Granite Harbour where it forms a floating tongue.
Exploration and naming
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. One of a group of nautical names in Convoy Range, this descriptive name is derived from the drainage of the feature, suggestive of stormwater on a ship's deck draining through scuppers along the rail. Named by a New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) field party, 1989–90.
Icefalls of Antarctica
Landforms of Victoria Land
Scott Coast
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