Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Kainan Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kainan Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay (3)
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 iceport which indents the front of Ross Ice Shelf about 37 miles NE of the NW end of Roosevelt Island. Discovered in January 1902 by the BrNAE under Robert Scott. It was named by the Japanese expedition under Lt. Nobu Shirase which, in January 1912, effected a landing on the ice shelf here from the ship Kainan Maru. Little America V, the main base of USN Operation Deep Freeze, 1955-56, was established at this site in late December 1955.
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