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)
Zumberge Coast (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Zumberge Coast (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Coast
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:
W coast of Ronne Ice Shelf from Cape Zumberge (q.v.) to the S entrance point of Hercules Inlet, was delineated in part from USN air photography, 1961-66, in part from US LANDSAT imagery of January-February 1974, and in part from radio echo-sounding flights by BAS from "Siple Station", Marie Byrd Land, in January 1975 (USGS sheets ST 17-20/13* and SU 16-20/2*, 1967; USGS satellite-image map Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; Crabtree and Doake, 1980, map p.32; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981); named in association with the cape after Dr J. H. Zumberge (APC, 1986, p.4; NGS map, 1987).
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