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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Bailey Ice Stream (GBR) | 79° 00' 00.0" S | 30° 00' 00.0" W | Watercourse |
Name ID: 107632
Place ID: 761
flowing WSW into Filchner Ice Shelf, S of Touchdown Hills, Coats Land, was mapped from the air on radio echo-sounding flights conducted by SPRI in co-operation with USNSF and the Technical University of Denmark, 1967-79; called Main Glacier (Brook, 1972); named Bailey Ice Stream after Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941-65), BAS glaciologist, Halley, 1965, who with two companions, D.P.Wild and DrJ.K.Wilson, died in a crevasse accident in the course of an oversnow radio echo-sounding traverse from Halley to W Dronning Maud Land, 12 October 1965 (Drewry, 1983, sheet 2; APC, 1986, p.3). On another traverse from Halley in April 1965, Bailey had sounded the upper part of the present feature (Bailey and Evans, 1968, map Fig. 4, p.5) and had taken part in field trials in NW Greenland in 1964. [Baileyranten, Wildskorvene and Wilsonbergen in Mannefallknausane, Heimefrontjella, Dronning Maud Land, are named after the three men.]. Bailey Ice Stream (Swithinbank and others, map, 1988). (APC, 1984). |
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Bailey Ice Stream (USA) | 79° 00' 00.0" S | 30° 00' 00.0" W | Watercourse |
Name ID: 122097
Place ID: 761
An ice stream on the northern margin of the Theron Mountains, flowing WSW to the Filchner Ice Shelf. Named by UK-APC after Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941-65), BAS glaciologist, who with two companions died in a crevasse accident during a radio echo sounding traverse inland from Halley station on Oct. 12, 1965. On an earlier traverse in April, 1965, Bailey sounded the upper portion of this feature. |
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Vstrech Island (AUS) | 66° 17' 34.7" S | 100° 44' 35.8" E | Island |
Name ID: 761
Place ID: 15611
Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956. |
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