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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| Miller Ice Rise (USA) | 69° 05' 00.0" S | 67° 37' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 128902
Place ID: 9573
An ice rise nearly 2 mi long and 1 mi wide at the ice front (1974) of Wordie Ice Shelf, 16 mi WNW of Triune Peaks, in S Marguerite Bay. Surveyed by FIDS, 1948-49, and photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1966. Named by US-ACAN in 1977 for Richard Miller, USN, chief radioman, Palmer Station, winter party 1968. |
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| Miller Ice Rise* (GBR) | 69° 06' 00.0" S | 67° 37' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 135270
Place ID: 9573
Formerly at Wordie Ice Front (January 1974), Marguerite Bay, Fallières Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1948-49; named after Richard Miller, USN, chief radio operator, "Palmer Station", winter 1968 (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; APC, 1980, p.4). Found to have disappeared, 1998, along with the retreat of Wordie Ice Shelf (qv). |
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