Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Napier Island (GBR) | 69° 14' 00.0" S | 67° 47' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 110295
Place ID: 10077
near SW end of Wordie Bay, Fallières Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in November 1958; called Napier Ice Rise (APC, 1962), when it appeared as an ice rise within the Wordie Ice Shelf and named in association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after John Napier (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms and published his first tables in 1614 (APC, 1962, p.22; DOS 610 sheet W 69 66, 1963). Satellite imagery of 1989 showed that the ice shelf had retreated and left an island at this location; (APC 1999). |
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| Napier Island (USA) | 69° 14' 00.0" S | 67° 47' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 129268
Place ID: 10077
An island 0.8 mi long in the SE part of Marguerite Bay, 12 mi WNW of Mount Balfour, Fallières Coast. Following survey and mapping as an ice rise in Wordie Ice Shelf by FIDS, 1958, this feature was named Napier Ice Rise by UK-APC. The name was amended to Napier Island by UK-APC after a general eastward recession of Wordie Ice Front (c. 1999) revealed it was an island. In association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after John Napier (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms and published his first tables in 1614. Not: Napier Ice Rise |
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