Humphreys Ice Rise
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Humphreys Ice Rise is an ice rise in Muller Ice Shelf
Muller Ice Shelf
Muller Ice Shelf, also known as Müller Ice Shelf according to the original German spelling of the family name Müller, was an ice shelf lying southwest of Hooke Point in southwest Lallemand Fjord, Arrowsmith Peninsula, Loubet Coast...

 in the southwest part of Lallemand Fjord
Lallemand Fjord
The Lallemand Fjord is a fjord located east of Arrowsmith Peninsula and west of Pernik Peninsula on Loubet Coast on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula...

, Loubet Coast. Photographed from the air by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1956–57, and surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1956-59. In association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named "Humphreys Hill" by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after William J. Humphreys (1862–1949), an American meterologist and specialist on the effects of ice in the atmosphere; joint author with W.A. Bently (Bently Crag, q.v.) of Snow Crystals, New York
New York
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, 1931. Renamed Humphreys Ice Rise to reflect the true nature of the feature.
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