Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Bach Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bach Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice shelf
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:
NE of Ronne Entrance, SW Alexander Island, after map compilation by FIDS in 1959 from air photographs taken by RARE in 1947, was named after Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer, in association with the names of other composers grouped in this area (APC, 1961, p.2; USHO chart 6638, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, map Fig. 3; BAS 250P sheets SR 17-18/15, 16 and SS 16-18/4, 1-DOS 1974). Shel'fovyy Lednik Bakka (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). Back [sic] Ice Shelf (US DMAAC chart JNC-120, 1976). Barrera de Hielos Bach (Argentina. AA, 1991, p.5.)
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