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Jones Mountains

Index Jones Mountains

The Jones Mountains are an isolated group of mountains, trending generally east–west for, situated on the Eights Coast, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, about south of Dustin Island. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 9 relations: Abbot Ice Shelf, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Dustin Island, Eights Coast, Ellsworth Land, National Science Foundation, Operation Highjump, Thurston Island, United States Antarctic Program.

  2. Mountain ranges of Ellsworth Land
  3. Volcanoes of Ellsworth Land

Abbot Ice Shelf

The Abbot Ice Shelf is an ice shelf long and wide, bordering Eights Coast from Cape Waite to Pfrogner Point in Antarctica.

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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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Dustin Island

Dustin Island is an island about long, lying southeast of Cape Annawan, Thurston Island.

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Eights Coast

Eights Coast is a portion of the coast of West Antarctica, between Cape Waite and Pfrogner Point.

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Ellsworth Land

Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Operation Highjump

Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.

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Thurston Island

Thurston Island is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long and wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth 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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See also

Mountain ranges of Ellsworth Land

Volcanoes of Ellsworth Land

References

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

Also known as Anderson Dome, Austin Valley, Avalanche Ridge, Basecamp Valley, Bonnabeau Dome, Cache Heights, Camelback Ridge, Christmas Cliffs, Christoffersen Heights, Eubanks Point, Exum Glacier, Farrington Ridge, Forbidden Rocks, Gopher Glacier, Granite Spur, Greenstone Point, Haskell Glacier, Hughes Point, Inspiration Rocks, Intrusive Spur, Miller Crag, Mount Loweth, Pemmican Bluff, Pillsbury Tower, Pond Ridge, Prism Ridge, Rice Ridge, Rightangle Peak, Rockfall Cliff, Sayen Rocks, Snowplume Peak, Snyder Peak, Sutley Peak, Walk Glacier, Wright Peak (Antarctica), Wright Peak, Antarctica.