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)
Fletcher Ice Rise (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fletcher 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 large ice rise, 100 mi long and 40 mi wide, at the southwest side of Ronne Ice Shelf. The feature is completely ice covered and rises between Rutford Ice Stream and Carlson Inlet. The ice rise was observed, photographed and roughly sketched by Lt. Ronald F. Carlson, USN, in the course of a C-130 aircraft flight of Dec. 14-15, 1961 from McMurdo Sound to this vicinity and return. Mapped in detail by USGS from Landsat imagery taken 1973-74. Named by US-ACAN for Joseph O. Fletcher, director of the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1971-74.
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