Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Tharp Ice Rise (GBR) | 72° 25' 00.0" S | 59° 54' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 111549
Place ID: 14588
at Larsen Ice Front, off Violante Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and sighted by a BAS glaciological party camped on the summit of Butler Island in January 1977; in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area and with Heezen Glacier (q.v.), named after Marie Tharp, American marine geologist and oceanographer of Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, NY (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; APC, 1980, p.5). |
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| Tharp Ice Rise (USA) | 72° 25' 00.0" S | 59° 54' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 132607
Place ID: 14588
An ice rise, c. 1.3 mi long, located at the ice front (1966) of Larsen Ice Shelf, 15 mi E of Cape Fanning, Merz Peninsula, Black Coast. The ice rise was mapped by USGS from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1966-69. In association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named by the UK-APC in 1977 after Marie Tharp, American marine geologist and oceanographer of Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New York. |
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