Bungenstockrücken

Bungenstockrücken (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bungenstockrücken  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 2045
Name ID: 106833

Feature type: Dome (2d)

Origin

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

Narrative

Large inland ice dome at the grounding line of Filchner-Ronne-Schelfeis, seperating the inland ice streams Möllereisstrom in the E and Institute Ice Stream in the W, Weddell Sea, West Antarctica. Feature detected by interpretation of Landsat-4/-5 satellite imagery taken on 1986-FEB-05 and 1986-FEB-15

Named For

Herwald Bungenstock (1928-1998), Ministerialrat (Undersecretary) in the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, essential promoter of marine and polar research.

Location

Latitude:
81° 30' 00.0" S
-81.50000°
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Longitude:
69° 00' 00.0" W
-69.00000°
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Altitude:
450 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Applied for name approval on 1991-JUN-05; factually checked and approved by Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN) (German PCGN) on 1991-OCT-31; finally approved by German National Committee of SCAR. Published on Satellite Image Map (with contours) 1:2,000,000 Filchner-Ronne-Schelfeis, Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie, Frankfurt am Main 1992.

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
22-Sep-1992

Related information

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