Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Brunt Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Brunt 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:
extending from DawsonLambton Ice Stream NE to the NE side of Stancomb-Wills Ice Stream, Caird Coast, was sighted by SNAE in March 1904 and subsequently by BITAE in January 1915 (Caird Coast, q.v.); provided the site for the RSIGYE station, 1955-59 (Halley, q.v.); was named after Sir David Brunt (1886-1965), English meteorologist; Physical Secretary of the Royal Society, 1948-57, who was responsible for the initiation of RSIGYE (APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3176, 23.ix.1960). The SW limit was originally given as c. 76 00'S 26 30'W, with the NE limit undefined. The ice shelf was surveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley in 1967 and 1970 (Thomas, 1973), and photographed from the air by USNSF in 1967-68 and 1969-70; its extent was shown on US LANDSAT imagery of February 1974. The definition was revised accordingly (APC, 1982, p.3). Brunt Ice Shelf (Germany. IAG satellite image map sheet SS 25-27, 1990)
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