Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Evans Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Evans Ice Stream (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Watercourse
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
flowing SE into Ronne Ice Shelf between Cape Zumberge, Orville Coast, and Fowler Peninsula, was surveyed on radio echo-sounding flights by BAS from "Siple Station", 21-23 January 1975; named after Dr Stanley Evans (b. 1929), British physicist who, from 1961, developed the apparatus and technique for radio echo-sounding of ice caps and glaciers from the air and participated in radio echo-sounding flights from "McMurdo Station", Ross Dependency, jointly organized by USNSF and SPRI, 1969-70 and 1971-72; upper atmosphere research scientist, RSIGYE, Halley, 1955-56 (APC, 1977, p.12; Crabtree and Doake, 1980, map p.32; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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