Adams Mountains

The Adams Mountains are a small but well defined group of mountains in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. ^[1]

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1. 9 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctica, Beardmore Glacier, Ernest Shackleton, Mount Kirkpatrick, Nimrod Expedition, Queen Alexandra Range, Terra Nova Expedition, United States Antarctic Program.

2. Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency

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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Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of.

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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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Mount Kirkpatrick

Mount Kirkpatrick is a lofty, generally ice-free mountain in Queen Alexandra Range west of Mount Dickerson. Adams Mountains and mount Kirkpatrick are Shackleton Coast.

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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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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. Adams Mountains and Queen Alexandra Range are mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency and Shackleton Coast.

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Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913.

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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

Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency

• Adams Mountains
• Barton Mountains
• Britannia Range (Antarctica)
• Carnegie Range
• Churchill Mountains
• Cook Mountains
• Darley Hills
• Duncan Mountains
• Erb Range
• Frigate Range
• Geologists Range
• Grosvenor Mountains
• Holland Range
• Holyoake Range
• Hughes Range (Antarctica)
• Lyttelton Range
• Marshall Mountains
• Moore Mountains
• Nash Range
• Prince Olav Mountains
• Queen Alexandra Range
• Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica)
• Queen Maud Mountains
• Rawson Mountains (Antarctica)
• Rockefeller Mountains
• Surveyors Range
• Worcester Range

References

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

Also known as Barnes Peak, Mount Drewry, Mount Price (Antarctica), Thompson Peaks.

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