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)
Bailey Ice Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bailey Ice Stream (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Watercourse (12)
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:
An ice stream on the northern margin of the Theron Mountains, flowing WSW to the Filchner Ice Shelf. Named by UK-APC after Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941-65), BAS glaciologist, who with two companions died in a crevasse accident during a radio echo sounding traverse inland from Halley station on Oct. 12, 1965. On an earlier traverse in April, 1965, Bailey sounded the upper portion of this feature.
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