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Tur Icefall (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tur Icefall (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Icefall (12)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A short icefall of unusual beauty falling from Hallett Peninsula to the south-east end of Seabee Hook. It is very prominent from Hallett Station. Named by the NZGSAE, 1957-58, for Dr J Tur, of Puerto Rico, surgeon and US Navy Leader at Hallett Station in 1957, the first year of its operation. Shear Cliff on its southern side is named for his colleague, the scientific leader at the station in 1957.
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