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Brunt Ice Shelf
The
Brunt Ice Shelf
borders the
Antarctic
coast of
Coats Land
between
Dawson-Lambton Glacier
and
Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue
. It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-names Committee
after
David Brunt
, British meteorologist, Physical Secretary of the
Royal Society
, 1948–57, who was responsible for the initiation of the Royal Society Expedition to this ice shelf in 1955.
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