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Gould Knoll

Coordinate: S 72.233, W 100.588

Transportation: Twin Otter

Closest operations HUB: 844km to WAIS

GPS Station ID: GLDK

Installed: 2018-2019 season

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Seismic Station ID: GLDK

Installed: 2023-2024 season

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A mostly ice-covered rock knoll that rises on the E margin of Hale Glacier, Thurston Island, at the point the glacier enters Abbot Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN after William G. Gould, NOAA specialist, 1960s to the mid 1990s, in the archiving of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite images of the world, including those used for AVHRR image maps of the Antarctic continent. (https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=136060).