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50 relations: Adams Mountains, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Amundsen's South Pole expedition, Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica, Antarctotrechus, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Axel Heiberg Glacier, Bingley, Buckley Island (Antarctica), Commonwealth Range, Dominion Range, Edgar Evans, Elytron, Eric Marshall, Ernest Shackleton, Glacier, Grindley Plateau, HMS Berwick (1902), Hugh Robert Mill, John Scott Keltie, Lennox-King Glacier, Marshall Mountains, McMurdo Station, Meyer Desert, Mill Glacier, Mount Augusta, Mount Buckley, Mount Elizabeth (Antarctica), Mount Hope (Ross Dependency), Mount Kirkpatrick, New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, Nimrod Expedition, Queen Alexandra Range, Queen Maud Mountains, Ramsey Glacier, Ranulph Fiennes, Roald Amundsen, Robert Calder Allen, Robert Falcon Scott, Ross Ice Shelf, Scotland, Smithsonian Institution, South Pole, Supporters Range, Terra Nova Expedition, The Cloudmaker, Transantarctic Mountains, Willey Point, William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn.
- Glaciers of Dufek Coast
- Glaciers of Shackleton Coast
Adams Mountains
The Adams Mountains are a small but well defined group of mountains in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica.
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Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
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 commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
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Amundsen's South Pole expedition
The first ever expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.
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Antarctic Plateau
The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about, and includes the region of the geographic South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
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Antarctotrechus
Antarctotrechus balli is extinct species of ground beetle known from the Miocene of Antarctica, the only species of the genus Antarctotrechus. It belongs to the tribe Trechini, and appears to be closely related to South American and Australian trechines.
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (2 January 1886 – 18 May 1959) was an English explorer of Antarctica.
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Axel Heiberg Glacier
The Axel Heiberg Glacier in Antarctica is a valley glacier, long, descending from the high elevations of the Antarctic Plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf (nearly at sea level) between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen in the Queen Maud Mountains.
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Bingley
Bingley is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
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Buckley Island (Antarctica)
Buckley Island is an island-like mountain massif, surmounted by the peaks of Mount Bartlett, Mount Buckley and Mount Bowers, rising above the ice at the middle of the head of Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica.
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Commonwealth Range
The Commonwealth Range is a north-south trending range of rugged mountains, long, located within the Queen Maud Mountains on the Dufek Coast of the continent of Antarctica.
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Dominion Range
The Dominion Range is a broad mountain range, about long, forming a prominent salient at the juncture of the Beardmore and Mill glaciers in Antarctica.
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Edgar Evans
Petty Officer Edgar Evans (7 March 1876 – 17 February 1912) was a Welsh Royal Navy petty officer and member of the "Polar Party" in Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912.
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Elytron
An elytron (elytra) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alternatively spelled as "hemielytra"), and in most species only the basal half is thickened while the apex is membranous, but when they are entirely thickened the condition is referred to as "coleopteroid".
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Eric Marshall
Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall (29 May 1879 – 26 February 1963) was a British Army doctor and Antarctic explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907–09, and was one of the party of four men (Marshall, Shackleton, Jameson Adams and Frank Wild) who reached Furthest South at on 9 January 1909.
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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
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
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Grindley Plateau
Grindley Plateau is a high icecapped plateau in the central Queen Alexandra Range of Antarctica, bordered by the peaks of Mount Mackellar, Mount Bell and Mount Kirkpatrick.
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HMS Berwick (1902)
HMS Berwick was one of 10 armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
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Hugh Robert Mill
Hugh Robert Mill (28 May 1861 – 5 April 1950) was a British geographer and meteorologist who was influential in the reform of geography teaching, and in the development of meteorology as a science.
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John Scott Keltie
Sir John Scott Keltie (29 March 1840 – 12 January 1927) was a Scottish geographer, best known for his work with the Royal Geographical Society.
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Lennox-King Glacier
Lennox-King Glacier is a large valley glacier, about long that flows east into the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Marshall Mountains
The Marshall Mountains are a group of mountains overlooking Beardmore Glacier in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica.
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McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.
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Meyer Desert
The Meyer Desert is a triangular ice-free area of about at the northern end of the Dominion Range, Antarctica, near the confluence of Beardmore Glacier and Mill Glacier.
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Mill Glacier
Mill Glacier is a tributary glacier, wide, flowing northwest between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica. Beardmore Glacier and Mill Glacier are glaciers of Dufek Coast.
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Mount Augusta
Mount Augusta, also designated Boundary Peak 183, is a high peak in the state of Alaska.
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Mount Buckley
Mount Buckley is an ice-free peak, high, which is the central and highest summit of Buckley Island, a mountain massif at the head of Beardmore Glacier.
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Mount Elizabeth (Antarctica)
Mount Elizabeth is a massive ice-free mountain, high, standing south of Mount Anne in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica.
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Mount Hope (Ross Dependency)
Mount Hope is a dome-shaped hill, rising to approximately, situated at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica at.
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Mount Kirkpatrick
Mount Kirkpatrick is a lofty, generally ice-free mountain in Queen Alexandra Range west of Mount Dickerson.
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New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica.
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Nimrod Expedition
The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent.
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Queen Alexandra Range
The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range about long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica.
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Ramsey Glacier
Ramsey Glacier is a glacier about long in Antarctica. Beardmore Glacier and Ramsey Glacier are glaciers of Dufek Coast.
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Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records.
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Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 –) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
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Robert Calder Allen
Robert Calder Allen (8 August 1812 – 28 January 1903) was an English naval captain.
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Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the ''Terra Nova'' expedition of 1910–13.
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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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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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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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Supporters Range
The Supporters Range is a rugged range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica.
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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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The Cloudmaker
The Cloudmaker is a massive mountain, high, standing at the west side of Beardmore Glacier, just south of Hewson Glacier in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica.
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Transantarctic Mountains
The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land.
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Willey Point
Willey Point is a conspicuous rock point along the west side of Beardmore Glacier, marking the south side of the mouth of Berwick Glacier.
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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn
William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, DL (16 October 1856 – 9 April 1936), known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921, was a British industrialist, founding the eponymous William Beardmore and Company.
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See also
Glaciers of Dufek Coast
- Ashworth Glacier
- Beardmore Glacier
- Canyon Glacier
- Gough Glacier
- Hood Glacier
- James F. Brandau
- Keltie Glacier
- Kosco Glacier
- Liv Glacier
- Mill Glacier
- Ramsey Glacier
- Shackleton Glacier
Glaciers of Shackleton Coast
- Beardmore Glacier
- Marsh Glacier
- Nimrod Glacier
- Nursery Glacier
References
Also known as Alice Glacier, Berwick Glacier, Bingley Glacier, Cape Allen, Cherry Icefall, Evans Glacier (Queen Alexandra Range), Garrard Glacier, Hewson Glacier, Lands End Nunataks, Lizard Point, Antarctica, Ludeman Glacier, Moody Glacier, Osicki Glacier, Shackleton Icefalls, Socks Glacier, Swinford Glacier, Table Bay, Antarctica, The Gateway (Antarctica), Wild Icefalls.