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Colbert Hills (Antarctica)

Index Colbert Hills (Antarctica)

The Colbert Hills are a line of hills and bluffs, including Coalsack Bluff, lying east of Lewis Cliffs, between Law Glacier and Walcott Névé in Antarctica. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 9 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctic Plateau, Gondwana, Lennox-King Glacier, Lystrosaurus, New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, Operation Deep Freeze, Queen Alexandra Range, Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica).

  2. Hills of Oates 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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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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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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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.

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Lystrosaurus

Lystrosaurus ('shovel lizard'; proper Greek is lístron ‘tool for leveling or smoothing, shovel, spade, hoe’) is an extinct genus of herbivorous dicynodont therapsids from the late Permian and Early Triassic epochs (around 250 million years ago).

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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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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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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.

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Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica)

The Queen Elizabeth Range is a rugged mountain range that parallels the eastern side of Marsh Glacier for nearly from Nimrod Glacier in the north to Law Glacier in the south.

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See also

Hills of Oates Land

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Hills_(Antarctica)

Also known as Bauhs Nunatak, Jacobs Nunatak, Lewis Cliff, MacAlpine Hills, Morse Nunataks, Mount Sirius.