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Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains)

Index Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains)

The Scott Glacier is a major glacier, long, that drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 32 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Amundsen Glacier, Antarctic Plateau, Beardmore Glacier, East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Gothic Mountains, Hays Mountains, Henrik Mohn, Karo Hills, La Gorce Mountains, Laurence McKinley Gould, Leverett Glacier, Louis Howe, Martyn S. Williams, Marvin H. McIntyre, Mount Blackburn, Mount Howe, Mount Salisbury, Névé, Nilsen Plateau, Outlook Peak, Quarles Range, Queen Maud Mountains, Rawson Mountains (Antarctica), Reedy Glacier, Richard E. Byrd, Robert Falcon Scott, Ross Ice Shelf, South Pole, Tapley Mountains, Transantarctic Mountains, Watson Escarpment.

  2. Glaciers of Amundsen Coast
  3. Gould Coast
  4. Ice streams of Antarctica
  5. 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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Amundsen Glacier

The Amundsen Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, about 7 to 11 km (4 to 6 nmi) wide and 150 km (80 nmi) long. Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) and Amundsen Glacier are glaciers of Amundsen Coast and Queen Maud Mountains.

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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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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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East Antarctic Ice Sheet

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally.

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Gothic Mountains

The Gothic Mountains is a group of mountains, long, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, located west of Watson Escarpment and bounded by Scott Glacier, Albanus Glacier, and Griffith Glacier. Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) and Gothic Mountains are Gould Coast and Queen Maud Mountains.

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Hays Mountains

The Hays Mountains are a large group of mountains and peaks of the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, surmounting the divide between the lower portions of Amundsen Glacier and Scott Glacier and extending from the vicinity of Mount Thorne on the northwest to Mount Dietz on the southeast. Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) and Hays Mountains are Queen Maud Mountains.

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Henrik Mohn

Henrik Mohn (15 May 1835 – 12 September 1916) was a Norwegian astronomer and meteorologist.

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Karo Hills

The Karo Hills are rounded, ice-free foothills in Antarctica extending for along the west side of the terminus of Scott Glacier, from Mount Salisbury north-northwest to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.

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La Gorce Mountains

The La Gorce Mountains are a group of mountains, long, standing between the tributary Robison Glacier and Klein Glacier at the east side of the upper reaches of the Scott Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) and la Gorce Mountains are Queen Maud Mountains.

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Laurence McKinley Gould

Laurence McKinley Gould (August 22, 1896 – June 21, 1995) was an American geologist, educator, and polar explorer.

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Leverett Glacier

The Leverett Glacier is about long and wide, flowing from the Antarctic Plateau to the south end of the Ross Ice Shelf through the Queen Maud Mountains.

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Louis Howe

Louis McHenry Howe (January 14, 1871 – April 18, 1936) was an American reporter for the New York Herald best known for acting as an early political advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Martyn S. Williams

Martyn Stephen Williams was born in Liverpool, England on May 2, 1947.

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Marvin H. McIntyre

Marvin Hunter McIntyre (27 November 1878 – 13 December 1943) was an American journalist and Presidential Secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR).

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Mount Blackburn

Mount Blackburn (Ahtna: K’ats’i Tl’aadi) is the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska in the United States.

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Mount Howe

Mount Howe is an elongated mountain in Antarctica, high, comprising low connecting ridges and gable-shaped nunataks.

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Mount Salisbury

Mount Salisbury is a peak in the Fairweather Range of Alaska, 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather.

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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.

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Nilsen Plateau

Nilsen Plateau is a rugged, ice-covered plateau in Antarctica.

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Outlook Peak

Outlook Peak is a mountain in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada, located on the southwestern edge of the Muller Icecap.

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Quarles Range

Quarles Range is a high and rugged range of the Queen Maud Mountains, extending from the polar plateau between Cooper Glacier and Bowman Glacier and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf. Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) and Quarles Range are Queen Maud Mountains.

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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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Rawson Mountains (Antarctica)

The Rawson Mountains lie within the Queen Maud Mountains to the southeast of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

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Reedy Glacier

The Reedy Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, over long and wide, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Michigan Plateau and Wisconsin Range in the Transantarctic Mountains. Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) and Reedy Glacier are Gould Coast and Queen Maud Mountains.

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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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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the ''Terra Nova'' expedition of 1910–13.

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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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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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Tapley Mountains

The Tapley Mountains is a range of mountains fronting on the eastern side of the Scott Glacier, extending eastward for between Leverett Glacier and Albanus Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) and Tapley Mountains are Gould Coast and Queen Maud Mountains.

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Transantarctic Mountains

The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land.

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Watson Escarpment

Watson Escarpment is a major escarpment in the Queen Maud Mountains, trending northward along the east margin of Scott Glacier, then eastward to Reedy Glacier where it turns southward along the glacier's west side.

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See also

Glaciers of Amundsen Coast

Gould Coast

Ice streams of Antarctica

Queen Maud Mountains

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Glacier_(Transantarctic_Mountains)

Also known as Albanus Glacier, Bartlett Glacier, D'Angelo Bluff, Griffith Glacier, Holdsworth Glacier, Howe Glacier, Klein Glacier, Koerwitz Glacier, Mohn Basin, Mount Early, Mount Mclntyre, Phillips Glacier, Poulter Glacier, Robison Glacier, Roe Glacier, Sanctuary Glacier, Souchez Glacier, Sunny Ridge, Van Reeth Glacier, Vaughan Glacier.