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Caird Trough (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Caird Trough (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Elongate bathymetric trough ca. 8 km long, 3.5 km wide, south-west of Dawson-Lambton Trough on the Caird Coast. The trough extends north-west from an unnamed glacier on the coast, which is located south-west of the Dawson-Lambton Ice Stream. Named in association with Caird Coast, after Sir James Caird (1864-1954), shipowner and jute manufacturer of Dundee, who subscribed towards the cost of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-16) under Shackleton.
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