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)
Dennison Reef (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dennison Reef (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Reef
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:
awash NW of Cape Rey, Crystal Sound, Loubet Coast, was photographed from the air by RARE, 1947-48, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Detaille Island", 1958-59; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after David Mathias Dennison (b. 1900), American physicist who took X-ray diffraction pictures used to interpret the crystal structure of ice; Professor of Physics, University of Michigan, from 1935 (APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961).
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