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30 relations: AECOM, Asgard Range, Boston, C. S. Wright, Clare Range, Discovery Expedition, Edward Wilson (explorer), Ernest Shackleton, Glacier morphology, Gonville and Caius Range, Granite Harbour, Holocene, Last Glacial Maximum, Marble Point, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Mount Falconer, Mount Newall, Newall Glacier, Olympus Range, Ross Dependency, Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Sea, Saint Johns Range, South Pole, Taylor Valley, Terra Nova Expedition, Thomas Griffith Taylor, University of Sydney, Victoria Land, Wright Valley.
- Glaciers of Scott Coast
AECOM
AECOM (formerly AECOM Technology Corporation; stylised AΞCOM) is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm.
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Asgard Range
The Asgard Range is a mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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C. S. Wright
Sir Charles Seymour Wright (7 April 1887 – 1 November 1975), nicknamed Silas Wright after novelist Silas K. Hocking, was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1910–1913, the ''Terra Nova'' Expedition.
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Clare Range
The Clare Range is the range extending west-southwest from Sperm Bluff to the Willett Range on the south side of Mackay Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Discovery Expedition
The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1843).
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Edward Wilson (explorer)
Edward Adrian Wilson (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912) was an English polar explorer, ornithologist, natural historian, physician and artist.
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Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.
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Glacier morphology
Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors.
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Gonville and Caius Range
The Gonville and Caius Range is a range of peaks, high, between Mackay Glacier and Debenham Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Granite Harbour
Granite Harbour is a bay in the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long, entered between Cape Archer and Cape Roberts.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Last Glacial Maximum
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.
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Marble Point
Marble Point is a rocky promontory on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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McMurdo Dry Valleys
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound.
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Mount Falconer
Mount Falconer is a mountain, high, surmounting Lake Fryxell on the north wall of Taylor Valley, between Mount McLennan and Commonwealth Glacier in Antarctica.
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Mount Newall
Mount Newall is a peak, high, the northeast extremity of Asgard Range, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition (1901–04) and named for one of the men who helped raise funds to send a relief ship for the expedition.
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Newall Glacier
The Newall Glacier is a glacier in the east part of the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, It flows east between Mount Newall and Mount Weyant into the Wilson Piedmont Glacier. Wilson Piedmont Glacier and Newall Glacier are glaciers of Scott Coast.
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Olympus Range
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.
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Ross Dependency
The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south.
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Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).
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Ross Sea
The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth.
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Saint Johns Range
Saint Johns Range is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.
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Taylor Valley
Taylor Valley is an ice-free valley about long, once occupied by the receding Taylor Glacier.
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Terra Nova Expedition
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913.
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Thomas Griffith Taylor
Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor (1 December 1880 – 5 November 1963) was an English-born geographer, anthropologist and world explorer.
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University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia.
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Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau.
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Wright Valley
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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See also
Glaciers of Scott Coast
- Biker Glacier
- Blue Glacier (Antarctica)
- Bowers Piedmont Glacier
- Campbell Glacier
- Drygalski Ice Tongue
- Ferrar Glacier
- Newall Glacier
- Sprocket Glacier
- Vacchi Piedmont Glacier
- Wilson Piedmont Glacier
References
Also known as Arnold Cove, Ball Stream, Bay of Sails, Bernacchi Bay, Blessing Bluff, Cape Dunlop, Cotton Glacier, Debenham Glacier, Greenwood Valley, Hanson Ridge, Hjorth Hill, Hogback Hill, Kaminuma Crag, King Pin, Kolich Point, Miller Glacier, Scheuren Stream, South Stream (Antarctica), Spike Cape, Staeffler Ridge, Surko Stream, Willis Glacier, Wright Lower Glacier.