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Geodetic Glacier

Index Geodetic Glacier

Geodetic Glacier is a glacier flowing east from Bettle Peak along the north side of the Thomas Heights into Bowers Piedmont Glacier, on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. [1]

8 relations: Bettle Peak, Bowers Piedmont Glacier, Geodesy, Glacier, New Zealand Geographic Board, Scott Coast, Thomas Heights, Victoria Land.

Bettle Peak

Bettle Peak is a peak, high, standing west of Bowers Piedmont Glacier and north of the Granite Knolls in Victoria Land.

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Bowers Piedmont Glacier

Bowers Piedmont Glacier is a piedmont glacier on the coast of Victoria Land, covering about and lying just south of New Harbour.

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Geodesy

Geodesy, also known as geodetics, is the earth science of accurately measuring and understanding three of Earth's fundamental properties: its geometric shape, orientation in space, and gravitational field.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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New Zealand Geographic Board

The New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) (Māori: Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) is constituted under the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, and was previously constituted under the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946.

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Scott Coast

Scott Coast is the portion of the coast of Victoria Land between Cape Washington and Minna Bluff.

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Thomas Heights

Thomas Heights is a line of summit ridges that extend from Bettle Peak Eastward to the Scott Coast, Victoria Land.

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Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of 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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References

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

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