Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Marr Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Marr Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Piedmont
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:
covering half of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, and extending from Cape Bayle in N to Arthur Harbour in S, was presumably sighted by GAE, 1873-74; roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05 and 1908-10; named after Dr James William Slesser Marr (1902-65), British marine biologist; member (as boy scout), Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-22, and (as biologist) British expedition to Svalbard, 1925; member of DI scientific staff, 1927-49, and of National Institute of Oceanography, 1949-65; William Scoresby, 1928-29, and Discovery II, 1931-33 and 1935-37; biologist, BANZARE, 1929-31 (Sir Douglas Mawson), and whale factory ship Terje Viken, 1939-40; Commander (as Lieut. Cdr, RNVR), Operation "Tabarin", and Base Leader, "Port Lockroy", 1943-44 (APC, 1955, p.14; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959; 3570, 29.ix.1961; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/3, 1-DOS 1979); surveyed in part by FIDS from "Arthur Harbour" in 1955 and photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.
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