Gipps Ice Rise (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gipps Ice Rise (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice rise
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:
rising to c. 270m above Larsen Ice Shelf, E of Revelle Inlet, Wilkins Coast, may have been seen from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928, when he plotted "indications of low snow-covered islands or snow ridges" in this vicinity (Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374); recognized from the air by USGS as an uncharted feature, 18 December 1966, and mapped from air photographs; traversed on a radio echo-sounding flight by BAS, 15 February 1970; named after Derek Raymond Gipps (b. 1929), Senior Executive Officer, BAS, 1961-73, and at NERC headquarters, 1973-89 (APC, 1975, p.3; BA, 1976, p.4; Martin, 1976, Fig. 1, p.141; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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