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Bush Mountains

Index Bush Mountains

The Bush Mountains is a series of rugged elevations at the heads of the Ramsey and Kosco glaciers in Antarctica. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctica, Erb Range, Kosco Glacier, Operation Deep Freeze, Operation Highjump, Queen Maud Mountains, Ramsey Glacier, Richard E. Byrd, Shackleton Glacier, United States, United States Antarctic Program.

  2. Dufek Coast
  3. Queen Maud Mountains

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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Erb Range

The Erb Range is a rugged mountain range rising to between Kosco Glacier and Shackleton Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains, and extending north from Anderson Heights to Mount Speed on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf.

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Kosco Glacier

Kosco Glacier is a glacier about long, flowing from the Anderson Heights vicinity of the Bush Mountains of Antarctica northward to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Wilson Portal and Mount Speed.

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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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Operation Highjump

Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.

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Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica.

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Ramsey Glacier

Ramsey Glacier is a glacier about long in Antarctica.

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Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from wide, descending from the Antarctic Plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs. Bush Mountains and Shackleton Glacier are Queen Maud Mountains.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Antarctic Program

The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the Antarctica continent.

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See also

Dufek Coast

Queen Maud Mountains

References

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

Also known as Cascade Bluff, Mount Bennett, Mount Boyd, Mount Butters, Mount Cromie, Mount Greenlee, Mount Weir.