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Mount Discovery

Index Mount Discovery

Mount Discovery is a conspicuous, isolated volcanic cone, high, lying at the head of McMurdo Sound and east of Koettlitz Glacier, overlooking the northwest portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 18 relations: Antarctica, Black Island (Ross Archipelago), Brown Peninsula, Discovery Expedition, Koettlitz Glacier, List of ultras of Antarctica, List of volcanoes in Antarctica, McMurdo Sound, McMurdo Volcanic Group, Minna Bluff, Mount Morning, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Ross Ice Shelf, RRS Discovery, Stratovolcano, Ultra-prominent peak, White Island (Ross Archipelago).

  2. Central volcanoes
  3. Pliocene stratovolcanoes
  4. Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica
  5. Stratovolcanoes of New Zealand
  6. Volcanoes of Victoria Land

Antarctica

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

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Black Island (Ross Archipelago)

Black Island, is an island in the Ross Archipelago, long, projecting through the Ross Ice Shelf to a height of.meters.

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Brown Peninsula

Brown Peninsula is a nearly ice-free peninsula, long and wide, which rises above the Ross Ice Shelf northward of Mount Discovery, to which it is connected by a low isthmus. Mount Discovery and Brown Peninsula are Scott Coast.

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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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Koettlitz Glacier

Koettlitz Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery in the Royal Society Range, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo Sound. Mount Discovery and Koettlitz Glacier are Scott Coast.

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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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McMurdo Sound

The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately from the South Pole.

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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. Mount Discovery and McMurdo Volcanic Group are volcanoes of Victoria Land.

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Minna Bluff

Minna Bluff is a narrow, bold peninsula, long and wide, projecting southeast from Mount Discovery into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Mount Discovery and Minna Bluff are Scott Coast.

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Mount Morning

Mount Morning is a shield volcano at the foot of the Transantarctic Mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mount Discovery and Mount Morning are central volcanoes, Scott Coast and volcanoes of Victoria Land.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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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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RRS Discovery

RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research.

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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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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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White Island (Ross Archipelago)

White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica.

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See also

Central volcanoes

Pliocene stratovolcanoes

Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica

Stratovolcanoes of New Zealand

Volcanoes of Victoria Land

References

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

Also known as Discovery Glacier, Helms Bluff, Lake Discovery.