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17 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctica, Blue Glacier, Discovery Expedition, Eric Marshall, Ernest Shackleton, Garwood Valley, Koettlitz Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Miers Valley, New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee, New Zealand Geographic Board, Nimrod Expedition, Operation Deep Freeze, Ross Sea, South Pole, Victoria Land.
- Valleys of Victoria 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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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
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Blue Glacier
Blue Glacier is a large glacier located to the north of Mount Olympus in the Olympic Mountains of Washington.
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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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Eric Marshall
Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall (29 May 1879 – 26 February 1963) was a British Army doctor and Antarctic explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907–09, and was one of the party of four men (Marshall, Shackleton, Jameson Adams and Frank Wild) who reached Furthest South at on 9 January 1909.
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Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.
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Garwood Valley
Garwood Valley is a valley opening on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, just south of Cape Chocolate. Marshall Valley and Garwood Valley are McMurdo Dry Valleys and valleys of Victoria Land.
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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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McMurdo Dry Valleys
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. Marshall Valley and McMurdo Dry Valleys are valleys of Victoria Land.
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Miers Valley
Miers Valley is a valley just south of Marshall Valley and west of Koettlitz Glacier, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Marshall Valley and Miers Valley are McMurdo Dry Valleys and valleys of Victoria Land.
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New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent.
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New Zealand Geographic Board
The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) has authority over geographical and hydrographic names within New Zealand and its territorial waters.
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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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Ross Sea
The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth.
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South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.
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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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See also
Valleys of Victoria Land
- Balham Valley
- Barwick Valley
- Beacon Valley
- Garwood Valley
- Greenville Valley
- Heil Valley
- Marshall Valley
- McKelvey Valley
- McMurdo Dry Valleys
- Miers Valley
- Pearse Valley
- Riu ō Te Ata Valley
- Shaw Trough
- Taylor Valley
- Towle Valley
- Victoria Valley
- Ward Valley
- Wright Valley
References
Also known as DeMaster Point, Kahiwi Maihao Ridge, Marshall Ridge, Marshall Stream, Rivard Glacier.