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Mackay Glacier

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Mackay Glacier is a large glacier in Victoria Land, descending eastward from the Antarctic Plateau, between the Convoy Range and Clare Range, into the southern part of Granite Harbour. [1]

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  1. 17 relations: Alistair Mackay, Antarctic Plateau, Benson Glacier, Clare Range, Convoy Range, Evans Piedmont Glacier, Ferrar Glacier, Granite Harbour, Ice tongue, Mawson Glacier, Nimrod Expedition, Ross Sea, South magnetic pole, Terra Nova Expedition, Victoria Land, Willett Range, Wilson Piedmont Glacier.

  2. Glaciers of Victoria Land

Alistair Mackay

Alistair Forbes Mackay (22 February 1878 –) was a Scottish physician, biologist, and polar explorer known for being the first, along with Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David, to reach the South Magnetic Pole on 16 January 1909, during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–1909.

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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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Benson Glacier

Benson Glacier is a glacier about long, draining the east part of Flight Deck Névé and continuing east between Fry Glacier and Mackay Glacier into the north part of Granite Harbour where it forms a floating tongue. Mackay Glacier and Benson Glacier are glaciers of Victoria Land and Scott Coast.

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Clare Range

The Clare Range is the range extending west-southwest from Sperm Bluff to the Willett Range on the south side of Mackay Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mackay Glacier and Clare Range are Scott Coast.

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Convoy Range

Convoy Range is a broad range in Antarctica. Mackay Glacier and Convoy Range are Scott Coast.

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Evans Piedmont Glacier

Evans Piedmont Glacier is a broad ice sheet occupying the low-lying coastal platform between Tripp Island and Cape Archer in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mackay Glacier and Evans Piedmont Glacier are glaciers of Victoria Land and Scott Coast.

See Mackay Glacier and Evans Piedmont Glacier

Ferrar Glacier

Ferrar Glacieris a glacier in Antarctica.

See Mackay Glacier and Ferrar Glacier

Granite Harbour

Granite Harbour is a bay in the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long, entered between Cape Archer and Cape Roberts. Mackay Glacier and Granite Harbour are Scott Coast.

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Ice tongue

An ice tongue or glacier tongue exists when there is a narrow floating part of a glacier that extends out into a body of water beyond the glacier's lowest contact with the Earth's crust.

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Mawson Glacier

The Mawson Glacier is a large glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, descending eastward from the Antarctic Plateau to the north of Trinity Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range, to enter the Ross Sea, where it forms the Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue. Mackay Glacier and Mawson Glacier are glaciers of Victoria Land and Scott 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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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 magnetic pole

The south magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic south pole, is the point on Earth's Southern Hemisphere where the geomagnetic field lines are directed perpendicular to the nominal surface.

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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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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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Willett Range

The Willett Range is the range extending north from Mistake Peak and running for as a high shelf along the edge of the continental ice to the Mackay Glacier, in Victoria Land. Mackay Glacier and Willett Range are Scott Coast.

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Wilson Piedmont Glacier

Wilson Piedmont Glacier is a large piedmont glacier extending from Granite Harbour to Marble Point on the coast of Victoria Land.

See Mackay Glacier and Wilson Piedmont Glacier

See also

Glaciers of Victoria Land

References

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

Also known as Cambridge Glacier, Cleveland Glacier, Detour Nunatak, Dome Nunatak, Frazier Glacier, Gateway Nunatak, Gondola Ridge, Gran Glacier, Hopkins Nunataks, Lee Lake, Mackay Glacier Tongue, Mount Allan Thomson, Mount Bergen, Mount Gran, Mount Suess, Mount Woolnough, Pegtop Mountain, Pegtop Nunatak, Redcliff Nunatak, Referring Peak, Reid Ridge, Scrivener Glacier.