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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		It was named after Carl Vinson (also the namesake of an aircraft carrier), a United States Georgia Congressman who was a key supporter of funding for Antarctic research.
		Named officially the American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition 1966/67, the expedition was sponsored by the American Alpine Club and the National Geographic Society, and supported in the field by the U.S. Navy and the National Science Foundation Office of Antarctic Programs.
		On nomination by Damien Gildea of the Omega Foundation, USGS Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN) on August 18th, 2006 approved naming the subsidiary peaklets south of Mt. Vinson for the AAME 1966/67 members Nicholas Clinch, Barry Corbet, Eiichi Fukushima, Charles Hollister, Brian Marts, Samuel Silverstein, Peter Schoening and Richard Wahlstrom.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Vinson_Massif (834 words)

	Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities 2 June 1988
		The Advisory Committee shall give advance public notice of its meetings and of matters to be considered at each meeting so as to permit the receipt and consideration of views on such matters from international organisations having an interest in them.
		The Advisory Committee, in providing advice on decisions to be taken in accordance with Articles 41, 43, 45 and 54 shall, in each case, undertake a comprehensive environmental and technical assessment of the proposed actions.
		The assessments of the Advisory Committee shall, in each case, address the nature and scope of the decisions to be taken and shall include consideration, as appropriate, of, inter alia: a.
	sedac.ciesin.org /entri/texts/acrc/cramra.txt.html (13833 words)

	BGN: Antarctic Names - Policies
		Decisions on Antarctic names are based on priority of application, appropriateness, and the extent to which usage has become established.
		Names in the following categories will not be considered, unless otherwise appropriate according to the principles stated herein, or unless such names are widely and firmly established as of the date of approval of these principles.
		Names of contributors of funds, equipment, and supplies, who by the nature and tone of their advertising have endeavored to capitalize or to gain some commercial advantage as a result of their donations.
	geonames.usgs.gov /antarctic/index.html (1461 words)

	Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
		In the nineteenth century, the Southern Ocean surrounding the Antarctic continent was prized as a source of wealth in the form of whale or seal oil and blubber.
		It is also the boundary adopted by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, because it is defined by natural features, including the northern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
		These range from factual, data-driven entries such as biographies, wildlife details, and statements about national Antarctic programmes, to longer, thematic overviews on major themes, to analytical discussions of issues that are of significant interest both to scientific researchers and the general public, such as climate change, conservation, geopolitics, biogeography, and pollution.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/antarctic/introduction.html (1679 words)

	Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica.
		The United States does not recognise territorial boundaries within Antarctica, so ACAN will assign names to features anywhere within the continent, in consultation with other national nomenclatural bodies where appropriate.
		ACAN has a published policy [1] on naming, based on priority of application, appropriateness, and the extent to which usage has become established.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ad/advisory_committee_on_antarctic_names.html (105 words)

	WAIS: Selected Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The ACAN action followed a decision it made in 2001 to have Ice Stream B renamed Whillans Ice Stream, in honor of Ian M. Whillans, who died on 9 May 2001 at the height of his distinguished glaciological career.
		These were named ice streams A through E by the investigators, all from the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England (1).
		Keith Echelmeyer and Wiliam Harrison have also focused their field and theoretical research on the stability of West Antarctic shear margins between ice streams and ice ridges, with application to the migration of the shear margin of ice stream B (12).
	igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov /wais/articles/acan.html (1029 words)

	The Antarctic Sun
		They are named after leaders of major expeditions, towering figures in Antarctic history and donors to Antarctic research.
		Ainley Peak is named for David Ainley, penguin and skua researcher.
		Kennedy Ridge is a ridge named for Nadene Kennedy, NSF's polar coordination specialist.
	antarcticsun.usap.gov /oldissues2000-2001/2000_1112/names.html (687 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 2/28/2003, Dr. Barclay Kamb, Dr. Hermann Engelhardt
		Barclay Kamb and Hermann Engelhardt, longtime researchers on the workings of the Antarctic ice streams, have been honored by the American Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN) with the renaming of two features near the gigantic Ross Ice Shelf, a Texas-sized mass of floating ice.
		Kamb is the Rawn, Jr., Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus, at Caltech and is still active in attempting to understand the rapid flow of the Antarctic ice streams and its potential effects on the health of the great ice sheet that covers 98 percent of the Antarctic continent.
		If the ice sheet were to float rapidly outward into the circum-Antarctic Ocean and melt, the addition of the huge volume of meltwater to the oceans would raise the sea level and have a drastic impact on coastal cities throughout the world.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12348.html (860 words)

	Palmer area islands
		The name arose from the island's position on the eastern fringe of the islands in the vicinity of Arthur Harbor.
		Named by the United Kingdom-Antarctic Place-names Committee for Douglas B. Litchfield of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, general assistant and mountaineer at the Arthur Harbor station in 1955 who helped with the local survey and made numerous soundings through the sea ice in the vicinity of the island.
		Named by the United Kingdom-Antarctic Place-names Committee for the Norwegian sealing vessel Norsel, which was chartered by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for the 1954-1955 summer season to establish the base at Arthur Harbor.
	www.antarcticmarc.com /islands.html (1842 words)

	Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
		Antarctic Treaty (1959), the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (1972) and the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (1980): http://eelink.net/~asilwildlife/aa.html
		The Antarctic Krill Conservation Project is a cooperative effort by conservation organizations worldwide dedicated to the protection of Antarctic krill to conserve the region’s marine ecosystem.
		In 1994 IUCN established the Antarctic Advisory Committee (AAC) as a means of focusing IUCN's involvement with Antarctic conservation issues.
	www.asoc.org /links.htm (1506 words)

	Ice Stream B In Antarctica Renamed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Formerly known as Ice Stream B, this basin of flowing ice in the western part of the continent was re-named by the Advisory Committee for Antarctic Names to honor late Ohio State University glaciologist Ian Whillans.
		The renaming was highly unusual since Antarctic features are almost never renamed after their initial name has been in use for some time.
		Whillans' team of researchers unload supplies from one of the Antarctic program's Twin Otter aircraft at a remote camp near one of the continents massive ice streams, glaciological features that fascinated Whillans throughout his career as a scientist/professor at Ohio State University.
	polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu /GDG/whillanspics.htm (243 words)

	South Pole, North Pole News and Guide
		Nine of those peak names were proposed by Damien Gildea of the Omega Foundation, the remaining 39 names were proposed by ACAN.
		Now that the USGS and ACAN have approved the proposed names and the map itself, the new Omega map is now the official reference guide for the area, superseding the 1988 1:250,000 USGS map ‘Vinson Massif’.
		Damien Gildea proposed that most of them be named after the members of the 1966-67 expedition, led by Nick Clinch, who made the first ascent of Vinson and surrounding mountains.
	www.thepoles.com /news.php?id=15145 (957 words)

	News from NSIDC Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Antarctic glaciers respond rapidly to climate change, according to new evidence found by NSIDC scientists.
		In the wake of the Larsen B Ice Shelf disintegration in 2002, glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula have both accelerated and thinned en route to the Weddell Sea.
		Antarctic Glaciers Speed Up Area map of the glaciers surrounding the Larsen B Ice Shelf.
	nsidc.org /news/archives (3025 words)

	Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica.
		The United States does not recognise territorial boundaries within Antarctica, so ACAN will assign names to features anywhere within the continent, in consultation with other national nomenclatural bodies where appropriate.
		ACAN has a published policy [1] on naming, based on priority of application, appropriateness, and the extent to which usage has become established.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Advisory_Committee_on_Antarctic_Names (124 words)

	Portland State \| News \| Portland State University Researcher's Work to Grace the Cover of Nature
		Recently, three glaciers in Antarctica were named for researchers in PSU's Geology department.
		The Fountain Glacier, Hulbe Glacier and Nylen Glacier were designated by the U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in recognition of the work conducted by Prof.
		PSU scientists are looking at how glaciers are reacting to global climate change and the resulting impact of glacier melt on ecosystem processes, in partnership with researchers from other universities such as Dartmouth, The Ohio State University, and the University of Colorado.
	www.pdx.edu /news/4603 (600 words)

	St.Olaf College - Glacier Research Group
		In 2003 the Advisory Committee for Antarctic Names (ACAN) honored a number of researchers by naming a number of Antarctic features after them (see related article).
		Robert W. Jacobel of St. Olaf College was one such honoree with the naming of the Jacobel Glacier that drains into the Sulzberger Ice Shelf along the coast of West Antarctica.
		It took some time, but we eventually discovered that the reason behind the naming of "Jacobel Glacier" was staring us right in the face.
	www.stolaf.edu /other/cegsic/jacobel_glacier.html (155 words)

	June 2004 Engineer Update
		There are few people who, in their lifetime, have been selected by their peers as a distinguished employee, have a high-tech conference center and a mountain named in their honor, and have received numerous prestigious awards from international organizations in their field.
		As referenced in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names of the Antarctic, "Mount Gow is located on the east side of Rennick Glacier in the Bowers Mountains.
		The mountain was named by the U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Anthony J. Gow, veteran Antarctic glaciologist, who carried on research at the Byrd, South Pole, and McMurdo Stations nearly every summer season from 1959 to 1969."
	www.hq.usace.army.mil /cepa/pubs/jun04/story10.HTM (880 words)

	Study reveals complex changes in West Antarctic Ice Streams
		The West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears on the left of the image.
		Three of the ice streams were named for Ohio State researchers.
		This new ICESat study comes not long after the Advisory Committee for Antarctic Names honored van der Veen and ten other glaciologists by renaming WAIS ice streams after them.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-12/osu-src120803.php (1181 words)

	NGDC Monthly News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The objective of the work was to validate the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder ice surface temperature algorithm, as part of the overall goal of the cruise to validate and calibrate a host of sea ice geophysical algorithms from Aqua, Terra, and earlier sensors.
		Scambos Glacier: The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names has proposed a number of names for antarctic geographic features that were previously unnamed or informally named.
		Committee on Space Weather: NGDC hosted a meeting of opportunity of the Data Panel of the Committee on Space Weather during Space Weather Week.
	www.ngdc.noaa.gov /products/news_archive_2003.html (14167 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - The Antarctic Treaty, 1961
		The names of observers shall be communicated to every other Contracting Party having the right to designate observers, and like notice shall be given of the termination of their appointment.
		CCAMLR was adopted in 1980 in response to fears that unregulated fishing for krill, the centre of the Antarctic food chain, might threaten the marine ecosystem.
		They invite the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, through their National Committees, to assemble the information exchanged under Article XII of the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, to arrange for its publication and, in accordance with Recommendation IV-19, to prepare reports from time to time on the status of species.
	www.aad.gov.au /default.asp?casid=1187 (7189 words)

	ERDC/CRREL Retiree Has Point in Antarctica Named in His Honor
		Stephen F. Ackley, a sea ice researcher previously with CRREL's Snow and Ice Division for approximately 30 years, was recently notified of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approval of the Antarctic geographic name Ackley Point following the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN).
		Individuals' names are assigned based on the level of a person¿s contribution to Antarctic research or history, and on the type of geographic feature.
		The U.S. Board on Geographic Names states¿ "[Ackley] is a sea ice specialist who worked in McMurdo Sound and diverse parts of the Southern Ocean for more than 25 years, dating from the 1976-77 austral season."
	www.erdc.usace.army.mil /pls/erdcpub/WWW_WELCOME.NAVIGATION_PAGE?tmp_next_page=157412 (373 words)

	Accomplishments and Awards
		CIRES Fellow Roger Bilham and his students were a key part of a team supported by the National Geographic that in 1999 determined the precise height of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, to be about seven feet higher than previously thought.
		In 1994, Solomon Glacier and Solomon Saddle in Antarctica were named after CIRES Fellow Susan Solomon in recognition of her remarkable work on Antarctic ozone depletion.
		In July 2003, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names proposed a host of new names for Antarctic features to honor glaciologists who participated in a twenty-year study of the dynamic West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
	cires.colorado.edu /accomplishments (667 words)

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		Geographical names in the Antarctic are not within the remit of the PCGN.
		Information on features within British Antarctic Territory (BAT), can be found on the website of the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee.
		For information on the naming of features in the whole of Antarctica, consult the online gazetteer compiled by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR): The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
	www.pcgn.org.uk /Antarctic.htm (124 words)

	Dickinson College - News Release
		In 1997, an Antarctic mountain at 78 degrees, 8 minutes south, 162 degrees, 17 minutes east was given the melodious name of Mount Potter in honor of Potter, who has traveled to the polar region seven times since 1975.
		Potter says he isn't sure who recommended that the 11,118-foot mountain be named for him, but it probably has to do with the work he has done in the dry valleys near the mountain in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land.
		Once the names are accepted they are then entered into an international gazetteer or directory.
	www.dickinson.edu /news/arshow.cfm?156 (269 words)

	RECENT ANTARCTIC NEWS AND ITEMS
		Evidently the US Antarctic Programme have decided that the McMurdo runway is not in a fit state to accept the Ilyushin especially as none of the crew on board have Antarctic flight experience.
		She was scheduled to attend a special anniversary meal at Scott Base this evening to celebrate the centenary of the First British Antarctic Expedition of Captain Robert F. Scott arriving in the antarctic as well as a special church service in the Chapel of the Snows before returning to Christchurch on Sunday weather permitting.
		The Christchurch Antarctic Centre yesterday announced that its Hagglund ride using a gwenuine Antarctic Hagglund has proved so popular in its first year that a second Hagglund vehicle was being added and the adventure course part of the tour was being extended including the addition of a mock crevasse for the vehicles to traverse.
	www.newzeal.com /theme/antarctic/2000news.htm (12471 words)

	Geotimes - July 2003 - Highlights - Glaciology
		In 1970, British glaciologists named the West Antarctic ice streams that enter the Ross Ice Shelf, giving them the titles A through E (adding Ice Stream F in 1972).
		As a fitting close to a decade of glaciological field research on these ice streams, and as part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative (WAIS), the U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN) (upon the urging of Julie Palais at NSF) recommended renaming the ice streams.
		The new names honor John Mercer (Ice Stream A), Kees van der Veen (tributary B 1 of Whillans Ice Stream, formerly Ice Stream B), Barclay Kamb (Ice Stream C), Robert Bindschadler (Ice Stream D), Douglas MacAyeal (Ice Stream E), and Keith Echelmeyer (Ice Stream F).
	www.agiweb.org /geotimes/july03/high_glaciology.html (937 words)

	ScienceDaily: Study Reveals Complex Changes In West Antarctic Ice Streams
		The West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears on the left of the image.
		Three of the ice streams were named for Ohio State researchers.
		This new ICESat study comes not long after the Advisory Committee for Antarctic Names honored van der Veen and ten other glaciologists by renaming WAIS ice streams after them.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2003/12/031208140650.htm (1485 words)

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