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)
Rutford Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rutford Ice Stream (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Watercourse
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:
flowing SE and E into the W side of Ronne Ice Shelf between Sentinel Range (Ellsworth Mountains, Marie Byrd Land) and Fletcher Ice Rise, its terminal part only lying within BAT, was photographed from the air by USN in 1959 and subsequently, and partially mapped from air photographs; named Rutford Glacier after Robert Hoxie Rutford (b. 1933), Director, Division of Polar Programs, NSF, 1975-77; USGS geologist, Ross Sea area, 1959-60, Jones Mountains, 1960-63, Ellsworth Mountains and Ross Ice Shelf, 1973-74 and 1974-75; Vice-President for Research and Professor of Geology, University of Nebraska from 1977 (USBGN, 1969, p.181); completely mapped from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1974 and renamed Rutford Ice Stream (Swithinbank and others, 1976, p.297; USGS satellite-image map Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; Alberts, 1977, p.46; APC, 1980, p.5).
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