Table of Contents
32 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Angino Buttress, Antarctic Plateau, Arctic Institute of North America, Boomerang Range, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Discovery Expedition, East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Glacier, Harvey Summit, Hillary Coast, Katabatic wind, Koettlitz Glacier, Lashly Mountains, Last Glacial Maximum, Moraine, Mount Dromedary (Antarctica), Mount Rücker, Mulock Glacier, Névé, Nunatak, Robert L. Dale, Ross Dependency, Ross Ice Shelf, Royal Society Range, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Scott Base, Tucker Glacier, USCGC Staten Island, Victoria Land, Warren Range, Worcester Range.
- Glaciers of Hillary Coast
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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Angino Buttress
Angino Buttress is a prominent buttress-type mountain near the center of the Skelton Icefalls in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Antarctic Plateau
The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about, and includes the region of the geographic South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
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Arctic Institute of North America
The Arctic Institute of North America is a multi-disciplinary research institute and educational organization located in the University of Calgary.
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Boomerang Range
The Boomerang Range (at) is a narrow mountain range on the western side of the Skelton Glacier and Skelton Névé, Antarctica.
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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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East Antarctic Ice Sheet
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally.
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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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Harvey Summit
Harvey Summit is a peak high at the head of McDermott Glacier in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Hillary Coast
The Hillary Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica along the western margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Minna Bluff and Cape Selborne.
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Katabatic wind
A katabatic wind (named) carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity.
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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.
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Lashly Mountains
The Lashly Mountains are a small group of mountains, the most prominent at being Mount Crean, standing south of the head of Taylor Glacier and west of Lashly Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Last Glacial Maximum
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.
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Moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.
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Mount Dromedary (Antarctica)
Mount Dromedary is a hump-shaped mountain, over high, standing east of Mount Kempe in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Mount Rücker
Mount Rücker is a mountain, high, immediately south of Johns Hopkins Ridge, in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Mulock Glacier
The Mulock Glacier is a large, heavily crevassed glacier which flows into the Ross Ice Shelf south of the Skelton Glacier in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Skelton Glacier and Mulock Glacier are glaciers of Hillary 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.
Nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.
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Robert L. Dale
Robert Dale (14 October 1924 – 22 June 2020), known as Bob Dale, was an American aircraft pilot for the United States Navy from 1942 to 1966; and a pilot for the National Science Foundation from 1967 to 1975.
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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 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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Royal Society Range
The Royal Society Range is a majestic range of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, rising to along the west shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koettlitz, Skelton and Ferrar Glaciers.
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Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Rutgers University–New Brunswick is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University, a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.
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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.
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Tucker Glacier
Tucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long, flowing southeast between the Admiralty Mountains and the Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea.
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USCGC Staten Island
USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) was a United States Coast Guard.
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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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Warren Range
Warren Range is an Antarctic mountain range about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long just west of Boomerang Range, with which it lies parallel, in Oates Land.
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Worcester Range
The Worcester Range is a high coastal range, about long, in Antarctica.
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See also
Glaciers of Hillary Coast
- Bertoglio Glacier
- Byrd Glacier
- Carlyon Glacier
- Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)
- Mulock Glacier
- Schutt Glacier
- Skelton Glacier
References
Also known as Allison Glacier (Antarctica), Alpha Bluff, Ant Hill Glacier, Baronick Glacier, Black Cap (Antarctica), Cape Timberlake, Clinker Bluff, Cocks Glacier, Dale Glacier, Delta Glacier, Dilemma Glacier, Halfway Nunatak, Hobnail Peak, Icefall Nunatak, Lower Staircase, Mason Glacier, Moraine Bluff, Mount Metschel, Mount Tricouni, Névé Nunatak, Norton Crag, Pari Haupapa Cliffs, Potter Glacier, Red Dike Bluff, Rutgers Glacier, Shults Peninsula, Skelton Icefalls, Skelton Inlet, Skelton Névé, Stepaside Spur, Teall Island, The Landing (Antarctica), The Portal (Antarctica), Trepidation Glacier, Twin Rocks (Antarctica), Upper Staircase, Wirdnam Glacier.