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)
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 |
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| Kershaw Ice Rumples (GBR) | 78° 39' 00.0" S | 75° 43' 00.0" W | Ice rumple |
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Name ID: 109607
Place ID: 7476
on Ronne Ice Shelf between Fletcher Promontory and Korff Ice Rise, were mapped from the air by BAS on radio echo-sounding flights from "Siple Station", Marie Byrd Land, 21-24 January 1975; named after John Edward Giles Kershaw (1948-90), pilot of the DHC-6 Otter aircraft when the feature was discovered; BAS senior pilot, 1974-79, and pilot on Transglobe Expedition (Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt), 1980-82 (APC, 1977, p.19; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981). |
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| Kershaw Ice Rumples (USA) | 78° 45' 00.0" S | 75° 40' 00.0" W | Ice rumple |
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Name ID: 127357
Place ID: 7476
A large area of disturbed ice between Fletcher Ice Rise and Korff Ice Rise, in the SW part of Ronne Ice Shelf. The feature appears in U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken in the 1960s and in imagery obtained by NASA Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1), 1973-74. Named by UK-APC for John E.G. Kershaw, senior pilot with the BAS, 1974-75. |
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