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Mount Kirkpatrick

Index Mount Kirkpatrick

Mount Kirkpatrick is a lofty, generally ice-free mountain in Queen Alexandra Range west of Mount Dickerson. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: Adams Mountains, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctica, Beardmore Glacier, Coelophysis, Conifer, Crow, Cryolophosaurus, Cycad, Dilophosaurus, Dinosaur, Glacialisaurus, Glasgow, Grindley Plateau, Hanson Formation, Lennox-King Glacier, Marshall Mountains, Nimrod Expedition, Operation Deep Freeze, Pangaea, Pelycosaur, Plateosaurus, Pterosaur, Queen Alexandra Range, Sauropoda, Tritylodontidae, United States Geological Survey.

  2. Four-thousanders of Antarctica
  3. Mountains of the Ross Dependency
  4. Paleontological sites of Antarctica

Adams Mountains

The Adams Mountains are a small but well defined group of mountains in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. Mount Kirkpatrick and Adams Mountains are Shackleton Coast.

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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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Antarctica

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

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Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of.

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Coelophysis

Coelophysis (traditionally; or, as heard more commonly in recent decades) is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 215 to 208.5 million years ago during the Late Triassic period from the middle to late Norian age in what is now the southwestern United States.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Crow

A crow (pronounced) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.

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Cryolophosaurus

Cryolophosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur known from only a single species Cryolophosaurus ellioti, from the early Jurassic of Antarctica.

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Cycad

Cycads are seed plants that typically have a stout and woody (ligneous) trunk with a crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and (usually) pinnate leaves.

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Dilophosaurus

Dilophosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now North America during the Early Jurassic, about 186 million years ago.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Glacialisaurus

Glacialisaurus is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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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. Mount Kirkpatrick and Grindley Plateau are Shackleton Coast.

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Hanson Formation

The Hanson Formation (also known as the Shafer Peak Formation) is a geologic formation on Mount Kirkpatrick and north Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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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. Mount Kirkpatrick and Lennox-King Glacier are Shackleton Coast.

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Marshall Mountains

The Marshall Mountains are a group of mountains overlooking Beardmore Glacier in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. Mount Kirkpatrick and Marshall Mountains are Shackleton Coast.

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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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Operation Deep Freeze

Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on.

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Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Pelycosaur

Pelycosaur is an older term for basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsids, excluding the therapsids and their descendants.

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Plateosaurus

Plateosaurus (probably meaning "broad lizard", often mistranslated as "flat lizard") is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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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. Mount Kirkpatrick and Queen Alexandra Range are Shackleton Coast.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Tritylodontidae

Tritylodontidae ("three-knob teeth", named after the shape of their cheek teeth) is an extinct family of small to medium-sized, highly specialized mammal-like cynodonts, with several mammalian traits including erect limbs, endothermy and details of the skeleton.

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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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See also

Four-thousanders of Antarctica

Mountains of the Ross Dependency

Paleontological sites of Antarctica

References

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

Also known as Decennial Peak, Fleming Summit, Golden Cap (Antarctica), Martin Ridge, Mount Dickerson, Mount Kilpatrick, Mount Kirkpatrick dinosaur site.