Buffer Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Buffer Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A mostly ice-covered island lying W of Wordie Ice Shelf, 9 mi NW of Mount Balfour, Fallières Coast. The feature was photographed from aircraft by RARE in 1947. Following survey by FIDS, 1958, named Buffer Ice Rise by UK-APC because it obstructed NW flow of the ice shelf in this vicinity. The UK-APC amended the name to Buffer Island following a general eastward recession of Wordie Ice Front (c.1999), which disclosed the feature to be an island. Not: Buffer Ice Rise.
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