Name details

Thompo Icefall

Thompo Icefall (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Thompo Icefall  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 132638

Feature type: Icefall (12)

Origin

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:

Narrative

An icefall at the NE edge of Saratoga Table between Mount Hummer and Mount Hook, in the Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by USGS in 1967 from ground surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken in 1964. Named by US-ACAN in 1979 after Robert W. Thompson, photographer of USN Squadron VX-6 in the Balleny Islands and Sky-Hi Nunataks areas, 1963-64, and in the Pensacola Mountains, 1964-65. Thompo is a nickname by which he and other family members have been known.

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Location

Latitude:
83° 18' 00.0" S
-83.30000°
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Longitude:
50° 08' 00.0" W
-50.13333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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Source Person:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

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Approval status

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Date approved:
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