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)
Doake Ice Rumples (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Doake Ice Rumples (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice rumple
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 NW-SE for c.100km between Korff Ice Rise and Henry Ice Rise, Ronne Ice Shelf, was traversed by a US IGY party from "Ellsworth", 1957-58 (Thiel and others, 1958); identified by BAS from US LANDSAT imagery of February 1974, from ground observations, and from radio echo-sounding in February 1981; named after Dr Christopher Samuel McClure Doake (b. 1944), BAS senior glaciologist from 1973, who has contributed to an understanding of the morphology and dynamics of Ronne Ice Shelf (APC, 1986, p.3). Doake Ice Rumples (Swithinbank and others, map, 1988)
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