Grace Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Grace 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 20 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. The National Aeronautics and Space Adminsitration and the German Aerospace Center's joint mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) was designed to map variations and changes in Earth's gravity field from which changes in mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet can be derived. It was launched in 2002 and operated until late 2017.
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