Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names information

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...

the Special Committee on Antarctic Names (SCAN). In 1963, the Advisory Committee on Undersea Features was started for standardization of names of undersea...

Thurston Island just east of Cape Petersen. Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Kevin M. Foley, United States...

surveys and U.S. Navy air photos (1959–1966) and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Allan Gill, aurora researcher at Byrd...

Local relief of features is on the order of 200 metres (660 ft). Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2000) after Philip...

Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Carl O. Petersen, radio engineer...

S. Navy aircraft. In 1961, the Vinson Massif was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN), after Carl G. Vinson, United States congressman...

Lampert Award in 2010 for her poetry collection Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, and for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016 for Tell: poems...

Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. Kent Plateau was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander Donald F. Kent, U.S. Navy, logistics...

charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Scott, and named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Raymond...

ice-covered islands. On the basis of the original discovery, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names recommends that the name Eklund be applied to the...

the north and Flynn Glacier to the south. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after John Carlstrom of the department of astronomy...

Operation Highjump (OpHjp) in January 1947. It was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Admiral Robert Carney (1895–1990)...

States Navy Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander David E...

Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after John W. Harvey of the National...

Survey from air photos obtained at that time. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in association with the Brunt Ice Shelf. In 2012,...

was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander William H. Everett, U.S. Navy, Commander of Antarctic Squadron...

between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in which the name "Antarctic Peninsula" was approved...

1960–63, and was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Joel Hedgpeth, a United States Antarctic Research Program...

Freeze (1956–63). The Bush Mountains were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-SCAN) on the recommendation of Rear Admiral Richard...

to record footing on the island. The island and the mountain were named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1967 in...

Littlepage, Mount Dearborn and Coalbed Mountain. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN, 2007) after James W. Head III, Department...

then east into the Ross Ice Shelf. The hills were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James M. Darley, chief cartographer of the National...

agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names and the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved...

Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Colwell Massif was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1994 after Rita R. Colwell, marine...

Acan or ACAN may refer to: Acan (god), a Maya deity Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ACAN (gene), a gene coding for the aggrecan protein ACAN-EFE...

the north end of Hurricane Ridge on the west margin of Discovery Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) in association...