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Worcester Range

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The Worcester Range is a high coastal range, about long, in Antarctica. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Antarctica, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Conway Range, Cook Mountains, Discovery Expedition, McMurdo Station, Mulock Glacier, Nimrod Expedition, Nunatak, Prince Albert Mountains, Rodney Marks, Ross Dependency, Ross Ice Shelf, Royal Society Range, Skelton Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land.

  2. Hillary Coast
  3. Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency

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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Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922), was a British newspaper and publishing magnate.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole.

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Conway Range

Conway Range is a mountain range in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica, on the west edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.

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Cook Mountains

The Cook Mountains is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. Worcester Range and Cook Mountains are Hillary Coast and mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency.

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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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McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.

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Mulock Glacier

The Mulock Glacier is a large, heavily crevassed glacier which flows into the Ross Ice Shelf south of the Skelton Glacier in the Ross Dependency, 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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Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.

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Prince Albert Mountains

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

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Rodney Marks

Rodney David Marks (13 March 1968 – 12 May 2000) was an Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning while working in Antarctica.

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Ross Dependency

The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south.

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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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Royal Society Range

The Royal Society Range is a majestic range of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, rising to along the west shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koettlitz, Skelton and Ferrar Glaciers.

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Skelton Glacier

Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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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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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

Hillary Coast

Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency

References

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

Also known as Ant Hill, Bareface Bluff, Clem Nunatak, Delta Bluff, Escalade Peak, Jensen Rampart, Mount Dawson-Lambton, Mount Harmsworth, Mount Marks, Mount Marvel, Mount Speyer, Northcliffe Peak, Swartz Nunataks, Tate Peak, The Podium (Antarctica).