Erskine Iceport (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Erskine Iceport (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Harbour (12)
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:
An iceport, about 3 mi wide and 6 mi long, which marks a more-or-less permanent indentation extending SE into the seaward front of the extensive ice shelf fringing Queen Maud Land. The "General Erskine Bay" was applied by USN OpDFrz I personnel on the USS Glacier who made a running survey of this coast in March 1956. The term iceport was suggested by the US-ACAN in 1956 to denote an ice shelf indentation, subject to configuration changes, which may offer anchorage or possible access to the upper surface of an ice shelf via ice ramps along one or more sides of the feature. Named for Gen. Graves B. Erskine, USMC (Ret.), director of the Office of Special Operations, Dept. of the Navy, who assisted in formulating expedition plans and policy.
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