Ice Sphinx Hole

Ice Sphinx Hole (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Ice Sphinx Hole  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 6840
Name ID: 136524

Feature type: None recorded.

Origin

This name originates from . It is part of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Proposer: Dr. H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Discoverer: R/V Polarstern. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Named after the novel "Ice Sphinx" from Jules Verne, French author of popular science fiction. This region of the Weddell Sea was visited by the persons in the novel.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
71° 15' 00.0" S
-71.25000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
16° 18' 00.0" W
-16.30000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1997

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