Worthy of note is the free exchange of information and views 

 which the Advisory Committee enjoys with antarctic names 

 committees in other Antarctic Treaty nations. The committees 

 frequently are a unique source of information concerning the 

 discovery and naming of features. Their cooperation, con- 

 ducted primarily through correspondence, has contributed to 

 agreement on specific names, terminology, and policies bear- 

 ing on the approval of names. Their assistance has been in- 

 valuable in resolving difficult nomenclature problems and 

 reducing the number of conflicting names. 



The present volume was compiled in a cooperative project 

 involving three Federal agencies. The Defense Mapping Agency, 



which supports the foreign place-names programs of the Board 

 on Geographic Names and maintains records of antarctic names, 

 funded the entry of the contents of the last antarctic gazetteer, 

 published in 1981, into machine-readable format. The U.S. 

 Geological Survey, which is responsible for programs on do- 

 mestic U.S. place names for the board, entered these data into 

 its automated Geographic Names Information System, updated 

 the records through mid- 1 989 using additional data provided 

 by DMA, and provided camera-ready pages for printing the 

 body of this volume. The National Science Foundation, which 

 funds and manages the United States Antarctic Program, co- 

 ordinated preparation of the front matter and provided funds 

 to print the gazetteer. 



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