Kirkby Glacier

Kirkby Glacier is a glacier, in length, that drains the central Anare Mountains of Antarctica and flows northwest to the sea just north of Arthurson Bluff, northern Victoria Land. ^[1]

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1. 13 relations: Anare Mountains, Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, Barnett Glacier, Davis Ice Piedmont, East Antarctica, Glacier, McMahon Glacier, Phillip Law, Southern Ocean, Sydney Kirkby (explorer), Thala Dan, Victoria Land, Yule Bay.

2. Glaciers of Pennell Coast

Anare Mountains

The Anare Mountains are a large group of mainly snow-covered peaks and ridges along the northern coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions

The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).

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Barnett Glacier

Barnett Glacier is a large glacier in the Anare Mountains that flows east along the south side of Tapsell Foreland into Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Kirkby Glacier and Barnett Glacier are glaciers of Pennell Coast.

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Davis Ice Piedmont

Davis Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont about long and wide, located along the north side of Missen Ridge on the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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East Antarctica

East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere south of the Indian Ocean, and separated from West Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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McMahon Glacier

McMahon Glacier is a glacier about long in the Anare Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Kirkby Glacier and McMahon Glacier are glaciers of Pennell Coast.

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Phillip Law

Phillip Garth Law, AC, CBE, FAA, FTSE (21 April 1912 – 28 February 2010) was an Australian scientist and explorer who served as director of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from 1949 to 1966.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Sydney Kirkby (explorer)

Sydney Lorrimar Kirkby, (born Perth, Western Australia 13 June 1933, died Nambour, Queensland 7 July 2024) was an Australian surveyor and Antarctic explorer.

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Thala Dan

MV Thala Dan, built in Aalborg in 1957, was an ice-strengthened refrigerated cargo-passenger ship.

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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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Yule Bay

Yule Bay is a bay indenting the coast of northern Victoria Land between Cape Hooker and Cape Dayman.

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See also

Glaciers of Pennell Coast

• Barnett Glacier
• Dennistoun Glacier
• Kirkby Glacier
• Lillie Glacier
• McMahon Glacier
• Pitkevitch Glacier
• Pryor Glacier
• Rennick Glacier
• Simpson Glacier
• Suvorov Glacier
• Zykov Glacier

References

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

Also known as Arthurson Bluff, Frecker Ridge, Ludvig Glacier, Mount Gale, Richardson Bluff.

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