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Mulvaney Promontory (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mulvaney Promontory (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Promontory
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Promontory at the southern end of Berkner Island. Named for Dr Robert Mulvaney (b. 1958), a glaciochemist with the British Antarctic Survey. Mulvaney led ice core drilling projects to bedrock on Berkner Island, James Ross Island and Fletcher Promontory and was part of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), as well as numerous other shallow and medium depth ice coring campaigns. He also worked on a range of ice cores from Greenland and Svalbard. He was closely linked to the technological development of continuous flow analysis of ice cores. Mulvaney was awarded the Polar Medal, 1999, OBE in 2009, and second clasp to the Polar Medal in 2019.
Named for Dr Robert Mulvaney (b. 1958), a glaciochemist with the British Antarctic Survey. Mulvaney led ice core drilling projects to bedrock on Berkner Island, James Ross Island and Fletcher Promontory and was part of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), as well as numerous other shallow and medium depth ice coring campaigns. He also worked on a range of ice cores from Greenland and Svalbard. He was closely linked to the technological development of continuous flow analysis of ice cores. Mulvaney was awarded the Polar Medal, 1999, OBE in 2009, and second clasp to the Polar Medal in 2019.
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