Cryosat Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cryosat 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 Savin Nunatak and 40 km south east of Eklund Islands. 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. CryoSat-2 is a European Space Agency satellite launched in 2010 and planned to be operational until 2022. It is specifically designed for monitoring the cryosphere and uses sophisticated synthetic aperture radar altimetry and radar interferometry techniques to provide improved accuracy over rugged ice sheet margins and sea ice in polar waters.
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