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)
Fletcher Promontory (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fletcher Promontory (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice rise
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:
W side of Ronne Ice shelf between Carlson Inlet and Rutford Ice Stream, its SE part only lying within BAT, was seen from the air on a US LC-130 aircraft flight from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to "Eights Station" across Ellsworth Mountains, 14-15 December 1961; traversed on a radio echo-sounding flight by BAS from "Siple Station", Marie Byrd Land, in January 1975 and mapped as a peninsula rather than an ice rise (Swithinbank and others, 1976, Fig. 3, p.297); later mapped by USGS from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1974 and named Fletcher Ice Rise after Dr Joseph Otis Fletcher (b. 1920), Director, Office of Polar Programs, USNSF, 1971-74; former Colonel, USAF, who in 1952 piloted the C-47 aircraft that made the first landing on the ice island T-3 near the North Pole (USGS satellite image map Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; Alberts, 1977, p.42). Fletcher Peninsula (APC, 1980, p. 3; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981). Fletcher Promontory (APC, 1982, p.3; Drewry, 1983, Map 2.1).
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