This page presents the geographical name data for
Burgess Ice Rise in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Burgess Ice Rise
Feature Class
(see definition):
Glacier
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
2161
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
70° 23' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
073° 21' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-70.3833333
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-73.35
Elevation
(see definition):
No data
Decision Year
(see definition):
No data
Description
(see definition):
A small ice rise in Wilkins Ice Shelf, off the W coast of Alexander Island. Mapped from the air on a radio echo sounding flight by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on Feb. 11, 1967, and later accurately positioned from U.S. Landsat imagery of Feb. 1979. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1980 after Flight Lieutenant Robert William Burgess, RAF pilot in command of the Twin Otter aircraft on the flight.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
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No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Burgess Ice Rise in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Burgess Ice Rise information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Burgess Ice Rise should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.