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)
Grand Chasms (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Grand Chasms (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Crevasse
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:
Formerly on Filchner Ice Shelf, W of Touchdown Hills, were photographed from the air and partly surveyed from the ground by TAE, 1956-57; further surveyed from the ground by a USIGY party from "Ellsworth Station" in 1957 and named descriptively Grand Chasm (Neuburg and others, 1959, p.112 and photograph p.114) or Grand Chasms (APC, 1962, p.14; USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 610 sheet W 78 36/38, 1963). Razlomy Grand-Kasms (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). Landsat 4-5 TM satellite imagery from March 1986 showed massive calving of the ice shelf in the vicinity of Grand Chasms and the area previously marked by Grand Chasms became the new ice front.
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