Feature Name (see definition): Slichter Foreland

Feature Class (see definition): Cape

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 14025

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 74° 07' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 113° 55' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -74.1166667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -113.9166667

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Description (see definition): A high ice-covered peninsula, 15 mi long and 10 mi wide, forming the NE arm of Martin Peninsula on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. First mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Highjump in January 1947. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Louis B. Slichter, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, who has been involved with planning scientific programs for the South Pole Station, and who has trained a number of geophysicists who have gone to Antarctica to implement those programs.

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