Bongrain Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bongrain 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:
between Cape Vostok and Mount Bayonne, NW Alexander Island, was seen from a distance and roughly surveyed by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1 and 2); photographed from the air by BGLE on 15 August 1936, and roughly mapped from these photographs (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); further photographed from the air by RARE in 1947; named after Sub-Lieut. Maurice Bongrain, French Navy, First Officer in Pourquoi-Pas? of FAE, 1908-10, and surveyor responsible for the first map of this coast (Bongrain, 1914) ([in 69 10'S 72 00'W] APC, 1955, p.6; DOS 610 sheet W 68 70, 1960; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1975] APC, 1977, p.6; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).
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