Alos Ice Rumples

Alos Ice Rumples (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Alos Ice Rumples  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 20083
Name ID: 139138

Feature type: Ice stream

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A 14 km wide group of small ice rumples in Stange Ice Shelf to the north of Nikitin and Hall glaciers. Following a naming theme in western Palmer Land for Earth Observation satellites and their sensors that have collected important data for understanding the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-1 (ALOS) was a mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. It carried a PALSAR (Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) instrument that operated between 2006 and 2011.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 38' 00.0" S
-73.63333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
76° 00' 00.0" W
-76.00000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
USGS Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica and SCAR Antarctic Digital Database in UK APC GIS
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
1:30 m resolution
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
British Antarctic Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Earth Observation satellites and their sensors that have collected important data for understanding the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
10-May-2018

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