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)
Kershaw Ice Rumples (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kershaw 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:
on Ronne Ice Shelf between Fletcher Promontory and Korff Ice Rise, were mapped from the air by BAS on radio echo-sounding flights from "Siple Station", Marie Byrd Land, 21-24 January 1975; named after John Edward Giles Kershaw (1948-90), pilot of the DHC-6 Otter aircraft when the feature was discovered; BAS senior pilot, 1974-79, and pilot on Transglobe Expedition (Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt), 1980-82 (APC, 1977, p.19; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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