Astrolabe Subglacial Basin (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Astrolabe Subglacial Basin (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Basin (15)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A subglacial basin to the S of Adelie Coast and E of Porpoise Subglacial Highlands, trending N-S and containing the thickest ice (c. 4,700 m) measured in Antarctica. The basin was delineated by the SPRI-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79, and named after Astrolabe, the flagship of the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837-40 (Capt. Jules Dumont d'Urville).
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