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Windless Bight

Windless Bight is a prominent bight that indens the south side of Ross Island, Antarctica, eastward of Hut Point Peninsula. ^[1]

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25 relations: Antarctica, Brewster, Washington, Cape Crozier, Castle Rock (Antarctica), Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Denver, Discovery Expedition, Ernest Shackleton, Hut Point Peninsula, Infrasound, McMurdo Ice Shelf, McMurdo Station, Microbarometer, Mount Erebus, Mount Terra Nova, Mount Terror (Antarctica), National Science Foundation, New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Island, Terra Nova Expedition, United States Board on Geographic Names, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Vienna.
Bays of Ross Island

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Brewster, Washington

Brewster is a city in Okanogan County, Washington, United States.

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Cape Crozier

Cape Crozier is the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica.

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Castle Rock (Antarctica)

Castle Rock is a bold rock crag, high, standing northeast of Hut Point on the central ridge of Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island, Antarctica.

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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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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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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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Hut Point Peninsula

Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from wide and long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica.

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Infrasound

Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low frequency sound, describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility (generally 20 Hz, as defined by the ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 standard).

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McMurdo Ice Shelf

The McMurdo Ice Shelf is the portion of the Ross Ice Shelf bounded by McMurdo Sound and Ross Island on the north and Minna Bluff on the south.

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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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Microbarometer

Microbarometers are sensitive barometers that can measure air pressure with high precision.

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Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth.

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Mount Terra Nova

Mount Terra Nova is a snow-covered mountain, high, between Mount Erebus and Mount Terror volcanoes on Ross Island in Antarctica.

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Mount Terror (Antarctica)

Mount Terror is an extinct volcano about high on Ross Island, Antarctica, about eastward of Mount Erebus.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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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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Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, or CTBTO Preparatory Commission, is an international organization based in Vienna, Austria, that is tasked with building up the verification regime of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

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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 Island

Ross Island is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending from Cape Bird in the north to Cape Armitage in the south, and a similar distance from Cape Royds in the west to Cape Crozier in the east.

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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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United States Board on Geographic Names

The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-, sea-, and space-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windless_Bight

Also known as Aurora Glacier (Antarctica), Cape MacKay, Dufek Head, Eastwind Glacier, Fog Bay, Antarctica, Sultans Head Rock, Terror Glacier (Antarctica), Terror Point, Tyree Head, Vee Cliffs.

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