Slichter Foreland (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Slichter Foreland (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Head (2h)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A high ice-covered peninsula, 15 mi long and 10 mi wide, forming the NE arm of Martin Peninsula on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. First mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump in January 1947. Named by US-ACAN after Louis B. Slichter, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, who has been involved with planning scientific programs for the South Pole Station, and who has trained a number of geophysicists who have gone to Antarctica to implement those programs.
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