# Godel Iceport

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**Godel Iceport** is an [iceport](/source/Iceport) about 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide, which marks a more-or-less permanent indentation in the seaward front of the extensive [ice shelf](/source/Ice_shelf) fringing the coast of [Queen Maud Land](/source/Queen_Maud_Land).[1]

## Discovery and naming

Godel Iceport was named by [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy) [Operation Deep Freeze I](/source/Operation_Deep_Freeze) personnel on the [USS *Glacier* (AGB-4)](/source/USS_Glacier_(AGB-4)), who made a [running survey](/source/Running_survey) of this coast in March 1956, for [William H. Godel](/source/William_H._Godel), deputy director of the Office of Special Operations, [Department of the Navy](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Navy), who assisted in formulating expedition plans and policy.[1]

The term "iceport" was suggested by the [Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names](/source/Advisory_Committee_on_Antarctic_Names) in 1956 to denote an ice shelf indentation, subject to configuration changes, which may offer [anchorage](/source/Anchor) or possible access to the upper surface of an ice shelf via ice ramps along one or more sides of the feature.

## See also

- [Ice pier](/source/Ice_pier)
- [Atka Iceport](/source/Atka_Iceport)
- [Erskine Iceport](/source/Erskine_Iceport)
- [Norsel Iceport](/source/Norsel_Iceport)
- [Bay of Whales](/source/Bay_of_Whales)

## References

1. 5784. Retrieved 14 June 2010.

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