Envisat Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Envisat Ice Stream (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice stream
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Ice stream flowing west into George VI Ice Shelf north west of Mount Vang Palmer Land. Named after Envisat a European Space Agency satellite launched in 2002 which operated until 2012. It carried 10 instruments including a more advanced imaging radar and radar altimeter instruments that extended data sets collected by the earlier European Remote Sensing satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2. Following a naming theme in western Palmer Land for Earth Observation satellites and their sensors that have collected important data for understanding the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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