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)
Burgess Ice Rise (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Burgess Ice Rise (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ice rise (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:
A small ice rise in Wilkins Ice Shelf, off the W coast of Alexander Island. Mapped from the air on a radio echo sounding flight by BAS on Feb. 11, 1967, and later accurately positioned from U.S. Landsat imagery of Feb. 1979. Named by the UK-APC in 1980 after Flight Lt. Robert William Burgess, RAF pilot in command of the Twin Otter aircraft on the flight.
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