SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.

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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Reynolds Ice Rise (USA) 69° 03' 00.0" S 67° 01' 00.0" W Ice rise
Name ID: 130716 Place ID: 12077

A small ice rise lying 3 mi SE of Wade Ice Rise in Wordie Ice Shelf, Fallieres Coast. The ice rise was mapped from U.S. Landsat imagery, 1974-79. Named by the UK-APC in 1987 after John M. Reynolds, BAS glaciologist, 1978-83, who undertook a study of intensive calving of Wordie Ice Shelf from Landsat imagery.

Reynolds Island (GBR) 69° 04' 00.0" S 66° 59' 00.0" W Ice rise
Name ID: 110856 Place ID: 12077

Island, formerly an ice rise ESE of Wade Ice Rise, Fallières Coast. Named Reynolds Ice Rise by APC in 1988 after John Michael Reynolds (b. 1955), Honorary Professor of Glaciology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, BAS glaciologist, 1978-83. Following the break-up of the Wordie Ice Shelf the feature was found to have a rock base with heavy snow and ice cover, thus renamed Reynolds Island, 2010.

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