Name details

Ramp Ice Stream

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 140256

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.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Ice stream about 300 km long and 22 km wide, flowing north-west and descending from about 1900 m to about 1200 m where it joins Recovery Glacier south of the Shackleton Range at 81°24'S 23°00'W. N

Named For

Named after RADARSAT-1 Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP), a collaboration between the Canadian Space Agency and NASA to map Antarctica using Synthetic Aperture Radar. The RAMP dataset was published in 1997.

Location

Latitude:
82° 00' 00.0" S
-82.00000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
23° 00' 00.0" W
-23.00000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1500 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
SCAR Antarctic Digital Database, 30 m resolution
Source Identifier:
SCAR ADD
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
SCAR/British Antarctic Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

GBR

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
14-Jul-2020

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