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)
Forster Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Forster Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Piedmont
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:
SE of Wordie Ice Shelf, Fallières Coast, was surveyed by BGLE in 1936-37 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232) and resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1958; named after Peter Derek Forster (1935-1996), FIDS surveyor, "Stonington Island", 1958-59, and "Horseshoe Island", 1960-61 (APC, 1962, p.13; DOS 610 sheet W 69 66, 1963).
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