Name details

Raymond Ice Ridge

Raymond Ice Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Raymond Ice Ridge  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140059

Feature type: Ice rise

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An ice ridge between Bindschadler Ice Stream and Kamb Ice Stream on Siple Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Siple Dome is at the west end of the ridge.

Named For

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Raymond, Geophysics Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, who studied the glacial history and evolution of the Marie Byrd Land ice stream system, with work on Siple Dome and the adjacent Bindschadler and Kamb Ice Streams in several field seasons, 1994-2002.

Location

Latitude:
81° 34' 59.9" S
-81.58330°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
135° 00' 00.0" W
-135.00000°
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Altitude:
583 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 100m mosaic release 1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
19-Dec-2019

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