Hemmen Ice Rise (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hemmen Ice Rise (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice rise (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 ice rise 11 mi long, located off the northwest corner of Berkner Island in Ronne Ice Shelf. The feature appears for the first time on a chart prepared at Ellsworth Station in 1957 by Capt. Finn Ronne, USNR. The ice rise was subsequently noted in U.S. Earth Resources Technology Satellite imagery. Named by UK-APC for George E. Hemmen, Executive Secretary of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, 1972; he served with FIDS as meteorological observer at Admiralty Bay, 1952-53, and Base Leader at Deception Island, 1953-54, and with the Royal Society Antarctic Expedition, 1956.
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