Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice shelf
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 extension into BAT of Riiser-Larsenisen, Dronning Maud Land. Following air and ground surveys by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52, and Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60, the ice shelf was named in Norwegian form after Maj. Gen. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, RNorwAF (1890-1965), Norwegian polar explorer and pioneer airman; with R. Amundsen and L. Ellsworth as seaplane pilot on flight towards the North Pole in 1925, and as chief pilot in the dirigible Norge on its trans-Arctic flight in 1926; Leader of Norwegian Antarctic expeditions, 1929-31 (in Norvegia) and 1932-33 (in Thorshavn); commanded RNorwAF in England, 1944-46 (NP map, 1962). The SW limit of the ice shelf was undefined in the original naming, but US LANDSAT imagery of February 1974 shows Lyddan Ice Rise as the natural boundary. The English form of the name applies to the small part of the feature between the ice rise and 20°00'W (APC, 1982, p.3).
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