Kamb Ice Stream (Antarctica)
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Name (Latin)
Kamb Ice Stream (Antarctica)
Other forms of name
Ice Stream C (Antarctica)
Coordinates
-145 -145 -82.25 -82.25 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Ice streams Antarctica
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q6356238
Library of congress:
sh2005020594
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: The dynamic history of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica, 2004.
- GNIS Antarctica, Aug. 3, 2005(Kamb Ice Stream, stream, 82⁰15ʹS, 145⁰00ʹW, variant name: Ice Stream C. An ice stream flowing W to Siple Coast between Siple Dome and Whillans Ice Stream. It is one of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice streams were investigated and mapped by USARP personnel in a number of field seasons from 1983-84 and named Ice Stream A, B, C, etc., according to their position from south to north. The name was changed by US-ACAN in 2002 to honor Barclay Kamb)
Wikipedia description:
Kamb Ice Stream (82°15′S 145°00′W), a glaciological feature of the Ross Ice Shelf of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, formerly known as Ice Stream C, the ice stream was renamed in 2001 in honor of Caltech Glaciologist Dr. Barclay Kamb. Its margins were the focus of a sequence of scientific borehole expeditions in 2019 and 2021 where a New Zealand team melted their way through the ice to sample the oceanographic conditions below.
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