Mariner Glacier

The Mariner Glacier is a major glacier over long, descending southeast from the plateau of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Mountaineer Range and Malta Plateau, and terminating at Lady Newnes Bay, Ross Sea, where it forms the floating Mariner Glacier Tongue. ^[1]

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1. 23 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Aviator Glacier, Barker Range, Borchgrevink Glacier, Coulman Island, Glacier, Lady Newnes Bay, Malta Plateau, Mountaineer Range, Névé, New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee, New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, Pleiades, Rennick Glacier, Roosevelt Island, Ross Sea, The Seafarer (poem), United States Antarctic Program, United States Geological Survey, USCGC Staten Island, USS Glacier (AGB-4), Victoria Land, Victory Mountains.

2. Glaciers of Victoria Land

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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Aviator Glacier

The Aviator Glacier is a major valley glacier in Antarctica that is over long and wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head where it forms a floating tongue.

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Barker Range

Barker Range is a mountain range trending northwest–southeast and including Jato Nunatak, Mount Watt, Mount McCarthy, and Mount Burton, located at the southwest side of the Millen Range in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mariner Glacier and Barker Range are Borchgrevink Coast.

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Borchgrevink Glacier

Borchgrevink Glacier is a large glacier in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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Coulman Island

Coulman Island is an island long and wide, lying southeast of Cape Jones, Victoria Land, Antarctica, in the western Ross Sea. Mariner Glacier and Coulman Island are Borchgrevink Coast.

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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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Lady Newnes Bay

Lady Newnes Bay is a bay about long in the western Ross Sea, extending along the coast of Victoria Land from Cape Sibbald to Coulman Island. Mariner Glacier and Lady Newnes Bay are Borchgrevink Coast.

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Malta Plateau

The Malta Plateau is an ice-covered plateau of about extent in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mariner Glacier and Malta Plateau are Borchgrevink Coast.

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Mountaineer Range

The Mountaineer Range is the range of mountains lying between the Mariner Glacier and Aviator Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mariner Glacier and Mountaineer Range are Borchgrevink Coast.

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Névé

Névé is a young, granular type of snow which has been partially melted, refrozen and compacted, yet precedes the form of ice.

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New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent.

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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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Pleiades

The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, reflects an observed pattern formed by those stars, in an asterism of an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.

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Rennick Glacier

Rennick Glacier is broad glacier, nearly long, which is one of the largest in Antarctica.

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Roosevelt Island

Roosevelt Island is an island in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan.

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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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The Seafarer (poem)

The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea.

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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 Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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USCGC Staten Island

USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) was a United States Coast Guard.

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USS Glacier (AGB-4)

USS Glacier (AGB-4) (later USCGC Glacier (WAG/WAGB-4)) was a U.S. Navy, then U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker which served in the first through fifteenth Operation Deep Freeze expeditions.

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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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Victory Mountains

The Victory Mountains is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea. Mariner Glacier and Victory Mountains are Borchgrevink Coast.

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See also

Glaciers of Victoria Land

• Airdevronsix Icefalls
• Benson Glacier
• David Glacier
• Evans Piedmont Glacier
• Fry Glacier
• Harbour Glacier (Victoria Land)
• Harp Glacier
• Kennedy Glacier (Antarctica)
• Koettlitz Glacier
• Larsen Glacier
• Mackay Glacier
• Mariner Glacier
• Matataua Glacier
• Mawson Glacier
• Nansen Ice Sheet
• Odell Glacier
• Plane Table Glacier
• Ponganis Icefall
• Priestley Glacier
• Reeves Glacier
• Taylor Glacier
• Tinker Glacier
• Tucker Glacier

References

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

Also known as Argonaut Glacier, Boyer Glacier, Bunker Bluff, Chocolate Nunatak, Emerging Island, Engberg Bluff, Gair Glacier, Hercules Névé, Hobbie Ridge, Index Point, Lawrence Peaks, Mariner Glacier Tongue, Meander Glacier, Olson Glacier, Potts Glacier, Seafarer Glacier, Webb Névé, Wilhelm Glacier.

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