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)
Ronne Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ronne Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice shelf
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 S side of Weddell Sea, is bounded to E by the strand cracks off the W and S coasts of Berkner Island S-ward, thence by the meridian of 50W to a point N of Pensacola Mountains, in c. 82°00'S 50°00'W, and is bounded to NW, W and SW by the strand cracks off Orville Coast, thence round the coast of Lesser Antarctica to 50°W. The area extending from the base of the Antarctic Peninsula SE towards Coats Land was seen from the air by RARE in November and on 12 December 1947, and called Edith Ronne Land after the wife of Capt. F. Ronne, USNR (Ronne Entrance q.v.); she assisted with the organisation of RARE and served as recorder of the expedition and as an observer at "Stonington Island", 1947-48.
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