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)
Aurora Subglacial Basin (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Aurora Subglacial Basin (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Basin (15)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large subglacial basin of Wilkes Land to the W of Dome Charlie and trending NW toward the coast in the vicinity of Shackleton Ice Shelf. The basin was delineated by the SPRI-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79, and named after Aurora, the ship of the AAE, 1911-14, led by Douglas Mawson.
No images of this place could be found.
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