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David Glacier

Index David Glacier

The David Glacier is a glacier over long, flowing east from the polar plateau through the Prince Albert Mountains to the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 20 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctic Plateau, Discovery Expedition, Dome C, Drygalski Ice Tongue, Edgeworth David, Ernest Shackleton, Glacier morphology, Icefall, Lamplugh Island, Mount Bellingshausen, Nimrod Expedition, Prince Albert Mountains, Ricker Hills, Ross Sea, Talos Dome, Terra Nova Bay, United States Antarctic Program, United States Geological Survey, Victoria Land.

  2. Glaciers of Victoria Land
  3. Ice streams of Antarctica

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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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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Discovery Expedition

The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1843).

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Dome C

Courtesy of.

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Drygalski Ice Tongue

The Drygalski Ice Tongue, Drygalski Barrier, or Drygalski Glacier Tongue is a glacier in Antarctica, on the Scott Coast, in the northern McMurdo Sound of Ross Dependency, north of Ross Island.

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Edgeworth David

Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (28 January 1858 – 28 August 1934) was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer.

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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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Glacier morphology

Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors.

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Icefall

An icefall is a portion of certain glaciers characterized by relatively rapid flow and chaotic crevassed surface, caused in part by gravity.

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Lamplugh Island

Lamplugh Island is an ice-capped island, long, lying north of Whitmer Peninsula, along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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Mount Bellingshausen

Mount Bellingshausen is a conspicuous cone-shaped mountain, high, standing northeast of Mount Priestley between Larsen Glacier and David Glacier, in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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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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Prince Albert Mountains

The Prince Albert Mountains are a major mountain group in Antarctica over long.

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Ricker Hills

The Ricker Hills are a group of mainly ice-free hills, about long, lying just west of Hollingsworth Glacier in Antarctica.

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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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Talos Dome

Talos Dome (sometimes spelled Thalos Dome) is a large ice dome rising to 2,300 m to the southwest of the Usarp Mountains in Antarctica.

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Terra Nova Bay

Terra Nova Bay is a bay which is often ice free, about long, lying between Cape Washington and the Drygalski Ice Tongue along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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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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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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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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See also

Glaciers of Victoria Land

Ice streams of Antarctica

References

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

Also known as Cape Philippi, Cape Reynolds, Cauldron, David, D'Urville Wall, David Cauldron, Geikie Inlet, Hollingsworth Glacier, Hughes Bluff, Martin Nunataks, Mount Kring, Mount Wood (Victoria Land), Nunataks, Martin, Woodberry Glacier.