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)
Ekströmisen (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ekströmisen (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice shelf (12)
This name originates from Norway. It is part of the Norway Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Ice shelf between Halvfarryggen and Søråsen on Kronprinsesse Märtha Kyst. After Bertil Ekström, d. 1951, Swedish mechanical engineer with NBSAE, 1949-52. Ekström drowned when the weasel (track-driven vehicle) he was driving plunged over the edge of Quar Ice Shelf in 1951.
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