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)
Bailey Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bailey Ice Stream (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Watercourse
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:
flowing WSW into Filchner Ice Shelf, S of Touchdown Hills, Coats Land, was mapped from the air on radio echo-sounding flights conducted by SPRI in co-operation with USNSF and the Technical University of Denmark, 1967-79; called Main Glacier (Brook, 1972); named Bailey Ice Stream after Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941-65), BAS glaciologist, Halley, 1965, who with two companions, D.P.Wild and DrJ.K.Wilson, died in a crevasse accident in the course of an oversnow radio echo-sounding traverse from Halley to W Dronning Maud Land, 12 October 1965 (Drewry, 1983, sheet 2; APC, 1986, p.3). On another traverse from Halley in April 1965, Bailey had sounded the upper part of the present feature (Bailey and Evans, 1968, map Fig. 4, p.5) and had taken part in field trials in NW Greenland in 1964. [Baileyranten, Wildskorvene and Wilsonbergen in Mannefallknausane, Heimefrontjella, Dronning Maud Land, are named after the three men.]. Bailey Ice Stream (Swithinbank and others, map, 1988). (APC, 1984).
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