Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Henry Ice Rise (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Henry 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 triangular-shaped ice rise about 70 mi long located between Korff Ice Rise and the southern portion of Berkner Island in the Ronne Ice Shelf First visited by the US-IGY geophysical traverse party from Ellsworth Station, 1957-58. Named by US-ACAN after Capt. Clifford D. Henry, Military Sealift Command, a veteran American polar sea captain and master of USNS Private John R. Towle. Henry died aboard his ship, Feb. 16, 1975, while returning from his fourteenth voyage to Antarctica in support of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program.
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