Name details

Ers Ice Stream

Ers Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Ers Ice Stream  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 139140

Feature type: Ice stream

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Ice stream flowing west between Jensen Nunataks and Gunn Peaks into George VI Ice Shelf. Named after European Space Agency satellites carrying Synthetic Aperture Radar instruments. ERS-1 was operational between 1991 and 1999 and was joined by ERS-2 from 1995 - 2011. The SAR systems provided high-resolution wide-swath all-weather and day-and-night images including repeat-pass interferometry for polar ice velocity measurements.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
72° 53' 45.0" S
-72.89583°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
71° 44' 00.0" W
-71.73333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
USGS Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica and SCAR Antarctic Digital Database in UK APC GIS
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
1:30 m resolution
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
British Antarctic Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Earth Observation satellites and their sensors that have collected important data for understanding the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
10-May-2018

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