Dotson Ice Shelf
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The Dotson Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about 30 miles (50 km) wide between the Martin Peninsula and the Bear Peninsula on the coast of Westarctica.
Discovery and name
It was first mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey from air photos obtained by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947. The shelf was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant William A. Dotson, US Navy, formerly Officer in Charge of the Ice Reconnaissance Unit of the Naval Oceanographic Office, who was killed in a plane crash in Alaska in November 1964 while on an ice reconnaissance mission.