Filchner Ice Shelf

Filchner Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Filchner Ice Shelf  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 4581
Name ID: 108795

Feature type: Ice shelf

Origin

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:

Narrative

on S side of Weddell Sea, is bounded to E and S by Coats Land SW-ward to a point N of Pensacola Mountains, in c. 82°00'S 50°00'W, and bounded to W by the meridian of 50°W and the E and SE coasts of Berkner Island to the N tip of the island. The eastern part of the ice shelf was discovered by GAE in 1912 and originally named Keizer Wilhelm Barrière after Kaiser Wilhelm II (Ger 1913); renamed Filchner Barrière after Dr Wilhelm Filchner (1877-1957), German scientist and explorer; Leader of GAE, 1911-12 (Ger. 1913). Filchner Ice Shelf was originally applied to whole of the ice shelf between Bowman Peninsula and Luitpold Coast (APC 1953); the part west of Berkner Island was later named as the Ronne Ice Shelf, the two collectively referred to as the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelves. The current definition of Filchner Ice Shelf applied by USBGN in 1966 and APC in 1977. In 1986, massive calving of the ice shelf was reported S-wards to Grand Chasms. For further information see British Antarctic Territory Gazetteer.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
79° 00' 00.0" S
-79.00000°
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Longitude:
40° 00' 00.0" W
-40.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
8-Jun-1953

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