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)
Reynolds Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Reynolds Island (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:
Island, formerly an ice rise ESE of Wade Ice Rise, Fallières Coast. Named Reynolds Ice Rise by APC in 1988 after John Michael Reynolds (b. 1955), Honorary Professor of Glaciology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, BAS glaciologist, 1978-83. Following the break-up of the Wordie Ice Shelf the feature was found to have a rock base with heavy snow and ice cover, thus renamed Reynolds Island, 2010.
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