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102 relations: Acidobacteriota, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Air New Zealand, Alistair Mackay, American Geophysical Union, Anorthoclase, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctica, Arctic, Auckland Airport, Basanite, Caldera, Cape Evans, Cape Royds, Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide, Chaos (cosmogony), Charles Darwin, Chloroflexota, Christchurch Airport, Chromatography, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Discovery Expedition, Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David, Erebus, Erebus Bay, Erebus crystal, Erebus hotspot, Eric Marshall, Ernest Shackleton, Franklin's lost expedition, Fumarole, Geophysical Research Letters, Greek mythology, Greek primordial deities, Hades, Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica, HMS Erebus (1826), HMS Terror (1813), Hydrogen, Hydrogen sulfide, Igneous differentiation, James Clark Ross, Jameson Adams, John Franklin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Journal of Geophysical Research, Lava lake, Lewis Bay, ... Expand index (52 more) »
- Lava lakes
- Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica
- Stratovolcanoes of New Zealand
- Volcanoes of Ross Island
Acidobacteriota
Acidobacteriota is a phylum of Gram-negative bacteria.
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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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Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand Limited is the flag carrier of New Zealand.
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Alistair Mackay
Alistair Forbes Mackay (22 February 1878 –) was a Scottish physician, biologist, and polar explorer known for being the first, along with Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David, to reach the South Magnetic Pole on 16 January 1909, during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–1909.
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American Geophysical Union
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members).
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Anorthoclase
The mineral anorthoclase ((Na,K)AlSi3O8) is a crystalline solid solution in the alkali feldspar series, in which the sodium-aluminium silicate member exists in larger proportion.
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Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Mount Erebus and Antarctica are extreme points of Earth.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
Auckland Airport
Auckland Airport is an international airport serving Auckland, the most populous city of New Zealand.
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Basanite
Basanite is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
Caldera
A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.
Cape Evans
Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay. Mount Erebus and cape Evans are historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica.
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Cape Royds
Cape Royds is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island, facing on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a poisonous, flammable gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and slightly less dense than air.
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Chaos (cosmogony)
Chaos (Kháos) is the mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe (the cosmos) in ancient near eastern cosmology and early Greek cosmology.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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Chloroflexota
The Chloroflexota are a phylum of bacteria containing isolates with a diversity of phenotypes, including members that are aerobic thermophiles, which use oxygen and grow well in high temperatures; anoxygenic phototrophs, which use light for photosynthesis (green non-sulfur bacteria); and anaerobic halorespirers, which uses halogenated organics (such as the toxic chlorinated ethenes and polychlorinated biphenyls) as electron acceptors.
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Christchurch Airport
Christchurch Airport is the main airport that serves Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Chromatography
In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture into its components.
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Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole.
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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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Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic.
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Edgeworth David
Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (28 January 1858 – 28 August 1934) was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer.
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Erebus
In Greek mythology, Erebus ("darkness, gloom"), or Erebos, is the personification of darkness.
Erebus Bay
Erebus Bay is a bay about wide between Cape Evans and Hut Point Peninsula, on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica.
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Erebus crystal
An erebus crystal is a crystal of anorthoclase (a type of feldspar) found in the immediate area surrounding Mount Erebus near McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
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Erebus hotspot
The Erebus hotspot is a volcanic hotspot responsible for the high volcanic activity on Ross Island in the western Ross Sea of Antarctica.
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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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Franklin's lost expedition
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, and, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether a better understanding could aid navigation.
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Fumarole
A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or another rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids.
Geophysical Research Letters
Geophysical Research Letters is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal of geoscience published by the American Geophysical Union that was established in 1974.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Greek primordial deities
In Greek and Roman mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.
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Hades
Hades (Hā́idēs,, later), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.
Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica
A Historic Site or Monument (HSM) is a protected location of historic interest on the continent of Antarctica, or on its adjacent islands. Mount Erebus and historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica are historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica.
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HMS Erebus (1826)
HMS Erebus was a constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826.
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HMS Terror (1813)
HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813.
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula.
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Igneous differentiation
In geology, igneous differentiation, or magmatic differentiation, is an umbrella term for the various processes by which magmas undergo bulk chemical change during the partial melting process, cooling, emplacement, or eruption.
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James Clark Ross
Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of the Arctic, participating in two expeditions led by his uncle John Ross, and four led by William Edward Parry, and, in particular, for his own Antarctic expedition from 1839 to 1843.
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Jameson Adams
Sir Jameson Boyd Adams (6 March 1880 – 30 April 1962) was a British Antarctic explorer and Royal Naval Reserve officer.
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John Franklin
Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.
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Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.
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Journal of Geophysical Research
The Journal of Geophysical Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
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Lava lake
Lava lakes are large volumes of molten lava, usually basaltic, contained in a volcanic vent, crater, or broad depression. Mount Erebus and lava lake are lava lakes.
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Lewis Bay
Lewis Bay is a bay indenting the north coast of Ross Island, Antarctica, between Mount Bird and Cape Tennyson. Mount Erebus and Lewis Bay are historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica.
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List of islands by highest point
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by their highest point; it lists islands with peaks by elevation.
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List of mountain peaks by prominence
This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.
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List of ultras of Antarctica
This is a list of all the ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Antarctica.
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List of volcanoes in Antarctica
This is a list of volcanoes in Antarctica.
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Lithoautotroph
A lithoautotroph is an organism which derives energy from reactions of reduced compounds of mineral (inorganic) origin.
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Lower Erebus Hut
The Lower Erebus Hut (LEH) is a permanent field facility located on Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica.
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Magma
Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.
Marsden grant
Marsden grants are the main form of contestable funding for fundamental, 'blue skies' research in New Zealand.
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McDonnell Douglas DC-10
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas.
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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. Mount Erebus and McMurdo Station are historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica.
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McMurdo Volcanic Group
The McMurdo Volcanic Group is a large group of Cenozoic volcanic rocks in the western Ross Sea and central Transantarctic Mountains areas of Antarctica.
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Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).
Mount Bird
Mount Bird is a high shield volcano standing about south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. Mount Erebus and Mount Bird are volcanoes of Ross Island.
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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. Mount Erebus and Mount Erebus are active volcanoes, extreme points of Earth, historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica, Holocene stratovolcanoes, hotspot volcanoes, lava lakes, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica, Stratovolcanoes of New Zealand, VEI-6 volcanoes and volcanoes of Ross Island.
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Mount Erebus disaster
The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board.
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Mount Sidley
Mount Sidley is the highest dormant volcano in Antarctica, a member of the Volcanic Seven Summits, the highest volcanoes on each of the seven continents, with a summit elevation of.
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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. Mount Erebus and mount Terra Nova are volcanoes of Ross Island.
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Mount Terror (Antarctica)
Mount Terror is an extinct volcano about high on Ross Island, Antarctica, about eastward of Mount Erebus. Mount Erebus and Mount Terror (Antarctica) are volcanoes of Ross Island.
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New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Oligotroph
An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients.
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Phonolite
Phonolite is an uncommon shallow intrusive or extrusive rock, of intermediate chemical composition between felsic and mafic, with texture ranging from aphanitic (fine-grained) to porphyritic (mixed fine- and coarse-grained).
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Phonotephrite
Phonotephrite or phono-tephrite is a strongly alkaline volcanic rock with a composition between phonolite and tephrite.
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Polygenetic volcanic field
A polygenetic volcanic field is a group of polygenetic volcanoes, each of which erupts repeatedly, in contrast with monogenetic volcanoes, each of which erupts only once.
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Porphyritic
Porphyritic is an adjective used in geology to describe igneous rocks with a distinct difference in the size of mineral crystals, with the larger crystals known as phenocrysts.
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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 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 expedition
The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships, HMS ''Erebus'' and HMS ''Terror''.
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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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Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.
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Scott Base
Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. Mount Erebus and Scott Base are historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica.
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Seismometer
A seismometer is an instrument that responds to ground displacement and shaking such as caused by quakes, volcanic eruptions, and explosions.
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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. Mount Erebus and south Pole are extreme points of Earth and historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica.
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Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.
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Strike and dip
In geology, strike and dip is a measurement convention used to describe the plane orientation or attitude of a planar geologic feature.
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Stromboli
Stromboli (Struògnuli) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing Mount Stromboli, one of the four active volcanoes in Italy.
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Strombolian eruption
In volcanology, a Strombolian eruption is a type of volcanic eruption with relatively mild blasts, typically having a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 1 or 2.
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Tephriphonolite
Tephriphonolite or tephri-phonolite is a mafic to intermediate extrusive igneous rock in composition between phonotephrite and phonolite.
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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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Trachyte
Trachyte is an extrusive igneous rock composed mostly of alkali feldspar.
Ultra-prominent peak
An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.
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United States Antarctic Program
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the Antarctica continent.
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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 Canterbury
The University of Canterbury (UC; Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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University of Waikato
The University of Waikato (Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato), established in 1964, is a public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand.
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Vinson Massif
Vinson Massif is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.
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Viscosity
The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate.
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Volcanic bomb
A volcanic bomb or lava bomb is a mass of partially molten rock (tephra) larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.
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Volcanic explosivity index
The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is a relative measure of the explosiveness of volcanic eruptions.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Whiteout (weather)
Whiteout, white-out, or milky weather is a weather condition in which the contours and landmarks in a snow-covered zone become almost indistinguishable.
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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.
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See also
Lava lakes
- Ambrym
- Erta Ale
- Fagradalsfjall
- Lava lake
- Loki Patera
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Michael
- Mount Nyiragongo
- Mount Yasur
- Pele (volcano)
- Villarrica (volcano)
Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica
- Beaufort Island
- Big Ben (Heard Island)
- Bridgeman Island (South Shetland Islands)
- Brown Peak (Sturge Island)
- Buckle Island
- Hudson Mountains
- Melville Peak
- Mount Discovery
- Mount Dixon (Heard Island)
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Melbourne
- Mount Overlord
- Mount Vernon Harcourt
- Penguin Island (South Shetland Islands)
- Young Island
Stratovolcanoes of New Zealand
- Brown Peak (Sturge Island)
- Buckle Island
- Kaitake Range
- Karioi
- Little Barrier Island
- Mount Discovery
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Ngauruhoe
- Mount Pirongia
- Mount Ruapehu
- Mount Taranaki
- Mount Tongariro
- Mount Vernon Harcourt
- Pouakai Range
- Raoul Island
- Tauranga Volcanic Centre
- Waitākere volcano
- Whakaari / White Island
- Young Island
Volcanoes of Ross Island
- Kyle Hills
- Mount Bird
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Terra Nova
- Mount Terror (Antarctica)
- Observation Hill (McMurdo Station)
References
Also known as Abbott Peak, Abbott Peak (Antarctica), Abbotts Peak, Abbotts Peak (Antarctica), Barne Glacier, Camp Slope, Cashman Crags, Coleman Peak, Crystal Slope, Demetri's Peak, Dimitri Peak, Esser Bluff, Fang Glacier, Fang Ridge, Glacier Ridge, Grazyna Bluff, Helo Cliffs, Hoopers Shoulder, Ice Tower Ridge, Inner Crater, Krall Crags, Main Crater, Millennium Peak, Mt Erebus, Mt. Erebus, Nausea Knob, Robot Gully, Seismic Bluff, Side Crater, Tarr Nunatak, Te Puna Roimata Peak, Tech Crags, The Fang, Three Sisters Cones, Turks Head Ridge, Western Crater, Williams Cliff.