Bermel Escarpment

Bermel Escarpment (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bermel Escarpment  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 1233
Name ID: 122453

Feature type: Escarpment (2f)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A snow and rock escarpment, 15 mi long, extending from the base of Ford Massif to King Peak, in the Thiel Mountains. The escarpment drops 300 to 400 m from the polar plateau to the ice surface N of these mountains. Named by US-ACAN after Peter F. Bermel, cartographer, USGS (Bermel Peninsula, q.v.); co-leader (with Arthur B. Ford) of the USGS Thiel Mountains party which surveyed the mountains in 1960-61; leader of USGS Topo East and Topo West, 1962-63, in which geodetic control was extended from the area of Cape Hallett to the Wilson Hills (Topo West), and from the foot of Beardmore Glacier through the Horlick Mountains (Topo East).

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Location

Latitude:
85° 17' 00.0" S
-85.28333°
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Longitude:
89° 30' 00.0" W
-89.50000°
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Altitude:
400 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1962

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