Name details

Thiel Trough

Thiel Trough (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Thiel Trough  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111556

Feature type: None recorded.

Origin

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:

Narrative

submarine trough with depths down to 1500m below sea level, extending into the Weddell Sea to c. 76°30'S 35°00'W, underlying Filchner Ice Shelf and the S part of Ronne Ice Shelf, S of Henry Ice Rise, and extending W into Ellsworth Land to c. 83°00'S 85°00'W, was discovered in its E part by a US IGY traverse party from "Ellsworth Station", 1957-58, and called Crary Trough after Dr Albert Paddock Crary (1911-87), American geophysicist and specialist in polar research; Chief Scientist, USARP, 1959-67; Director, Division of Environmental Sciences, NSF, 1969-76; Chairman, USACAN, 1972-76 (Thiel and others, 1958, Fig. 9; Robin, 1972, p.681); traced W by US seismic traverse parties, 1958-64; further delineated on radio echosounding flights by SPRI in collaboration with USNSF from 1967. The name Thiel Subglacial Trough was later applied to the whole feature, roughly as now defined and at the instance of Dr Crary, after Dr Edward C. Thiel (1928-61), American geophysicist, of the University of Minnesota; seismologist, "Ellsworth Station", 1956-58, and Leader of the traverse party that discovered the feature; Leader of the US Airborne Geophysical Program, 1958-61, who was killed in an air crash near "Wilkes Station", AAT, 9 November 1961 (NGS atlas, 1975, Pl. 188-89). Señal [sic] Cruz Cristiana [=Christian cross channel], referring to the NE part of the feature (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter C). Thiel Trough, as now defined (APC, 1982, p.3; Drewry, 1983, Sheet 3). Theil [sic] Trough (Australia. ANARE, 1984, p.85).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
81° 30' 00.0" S
-81.50000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
57° 00' 00.0" W
-57.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
9-Dec-1981

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