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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Möller Ice Stream (GBR) | 82° 20' 00.0" S | 60° 00' 00.0" W | Watercourse |
Name ID: 110196
Place ID: 9738
flowing NNE into Filchner Ice Shelf on the west side of Foundation Ice Stream and, for much of its length, parallel to that ice stream. Named after Pro.f Dietrich Möller (b. 1927), German engineer, Professor and Director, Institute for Land Survey, Technical University of Braunschweig from 1972. Deputy Leader and in charge of geodetic work at Filchner Station, 1979-80, co-ordinator of glacial geodetic programme on Filchner and Ronne Ice Shelves, from 1980. |
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Möller Ice Stream (USA) | 82° 20' 00.0" S | 63° 30' 00.0" W | Watercourse |
Name ID: 129021
Place ID: 9738
An ice stream flowing NNE into Ronne Ice Shelf to the W of Foundation Ice Stream. The drainage basin of this ice stream is separated by Rambo Nunataks from the drainage basin of Foundation Ice Stream. The feature was delineated from U.S. Landsat imagery commissioned by the Institut fur Angewandte Geodasie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, recorded January-March, 1986. Named after Dietrich Moller, German engineer, Professor and Director, Institute for Land Survey, Technical University of Braunschweig, from 1972; Deputy Leader and in charge of geodetic work at Filchner Station on Ronne Ice Shelf, 1979-80. |
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Möllereisstrom (DEU) | 82° 00' 00.0" S | 63° 00' 00.0" W | Ice stream |
Name ID: 107001
Place ID: 9738
Before entering Filchner-Ronne-Schelfeis, Möllereisstrom ist passing the ice dome Bungenstockrücken in the W and joining with Institute Ice Streamon in the E, both traversing the passage between Berkner Island (in the E) and Henry Ice Rice (in the W), Weddell Sea. Named during German Antarctic Expedition 1985/86 |
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