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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| Martin Ice Rise (GBR) | 72° 26' 00.0" S | 69° 01' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 110025
Place ID: 9066
in George VI Ice Shelf SW of Kirwan Inlet (q.v.), Alexander Island, was roughly charted as a promontory by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1948-50 (DCS 601 sheet W 62 68, 1956); delineated as an ice rise from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973 (BAS 250P sheet SS 19-21/1, 1-DOS 1974); in association with the inlet, named after Sir David Christie Martin (1914-76), Executive Secretary of the Royal Society, 1947-76, who played a leading role in organizing the RSIGYE (APC, 1980, p.4). |
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| Martin Ice Rise (USA) | 72° 26' 00.0" S | 69° 01' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 128487
Place ID: 9066
An ice rise, 6 mi long and 3 mi wide, in George VI Ice Shelf, located 10 mi SW of Kirwan Inlet, Alexander Island. Delineated as an ice rise from U.S. Landsat imagery of January 1973. Named in 1977 by the UK-APC after Sir David Martin (1914-76), Executive Secretary of the Royal Society, 1947-76, who played a leading role in organizing the Royal Society IGY Expedition, 1956-58. |
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