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)
Skytrain Ice Rise (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Skytrain Ice Rise (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:
properly a peninsula between Constellation Inlet and Hercules Inlet on SW side of Ronne Ice Shelf, with its W side lying outside BAT, was photographed from the air by USN, 1961-66, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after the Douglas Skytrain aircraft, developed from the Dakota aircraft and used in support of USARP operations (USGS sheet ST 17-20/13, 1967; APC, 1974, p.6; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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