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Corr Dome (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Corr Dome (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Dome
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Dome rising to about 550 m at the eastern end of Fowler Peninsula, Zumberge Coast. Named for Hugh Corr, glaciologist and radar engineer at British Antarctic Survey from 1986 to 2017. He developed and applied a range of geophysical measurement techniques, particularly ice-penetrating radar systems, from aircraft to study the ice sheet and the continental structure beneath. Corr took part in several large international collaborative projects across Antarctica including aerogeophysical survey of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains during the International Polar Year 2007-08. He also led the NERC Research project ‘Ice shelves in a warming world'. Awarded the Polar Medal 2005. The feature lies to the south of Evans Ice Stream, named for Dr Stanley Evans (b. 1929), British physicist who, from 1961, developed the apparatus and technique for radio echo-sounding of ice caps and glaciers.
Named for Hugh Corr, glaciologist and radar engineer at British Antarctic Survey from 1986 to 2017. He developed and applied a range of geophysical measurement techniques, particularly ice-penetrating radar systems, from aircraft to study the ice sheet and the continental structure beneath. Corr took part in several large international collaborative projects across Antarctica including aerogeophysical survey of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains during the International Polar Year 2007-08. He also led the NERC Research project "Ice shelves in a warming world". Awarded the Polar Medal 2005.
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