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)
Worcester Summit (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Worcester Summit (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
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:
rising to c.2020m at E end of Jaeger Table, Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964; following field work by USGS from 1965, named after Robin Worcester, of USGS, who with D.W. Bennett (Bennett Spur, q.v.) formed the first of several annual doppler-research teams at the "South Pole Station" in 1973 ([incorrectly shown in 82°36'S 50°55'W] APC, 1980, p.5; [co-ordinates corrected] 1982, p.3). Worcester Summit (USGS SU 21-25/10, 1989).
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