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Reedy Glacier

Index Reedy Glacier

The Reedy Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, over long and wide, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Michigan Plateau and Wisconsin Range in the Transantarctic Mountains. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica, Bender Mountains, Caloplaca Hills, Cenozoic, Eblen Hills, Glacier, Griffith Peak, Horlick Mountains, Last Glacial Maximum, Marie Byrd Land, Mercer Ice Stream, Metavolcanic Mountain, Mount Bolton, Nunatak, Ohio State University, Olentangy River, Quartz Hills, Queen Maud Mountains, Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Sea, Transantarctic Mountains, United States Geological Survey, Watson Escarpment, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Wisconsin Range.

  2. Glaciers of Marie Byrd Land
  3. Glaciers of the Ross Dependency
  4. Gould Coast
  5. Queen Maud Mountains
  6. Transantarctic Mountains

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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Antarctica

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

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Bender Mountains

The Bender Mountains are a small group of mountains southwest of the Berry Peaks, between the southeast edge of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Watson Escarpment.

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Caloplaca Hills

The Caloplaca Hills are a distinctive group of rock hills including Mount Carmer and Heathcock Peak, lying east of the Watson Escarpment on the west side of Reedy Glacier.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.

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Eblen Hills

The Eblen Hills are a cluster of precipitous rock hills in Antarctica, rising to just north of the mouth of Colorado Glacier where the latter enters the west side of Reedy Glacier.

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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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Griffith Peak

Griffith Peak is located in the Spring Mountains in Clark County of southern Nevada.

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Horlick Mountains

The Horlick Mountains are a mountain group in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, lying eastward of Reedy Glacier and including the Wisconsin Range, Long Hills and Ohio Range. Reedy Glacier and Horlick Mountains are Transantarctic Mountains.

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Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica.

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Mercer Ice Stream

Mercer Ice Stream, formerly Ice Stream A, flows west to Gould Coast to the south of Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica.

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Metavolcanic Mountain

Metavolcanic Mountain is a large flat-topped mountain, high, located north of the Hatcher Bluffs on the east side of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica.

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Mount Bolton

Mount Bolton is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the Continental Divide, northeast of Elkford, Kootenay Land District.

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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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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Olentangy River

The Olentangy River is a tributary of the Scioto River in Ohio, United States.

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Quartz Hills

The Quartz Hills is an arcuate cluster of largely ice-free hills and peaks found immediately south of Colorado Glacier along the west side of Reedy Glacier.

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Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. Reedy Glacier and Queen Maud Mountains are Transantarctic Mountains.

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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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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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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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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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Watson Escarpment

Watson Escarpment is a major escarpment in the Queen Maud Mountains, trending northward along the east margin of Scott Glacier, then eastward to Reedy Glacier where it turns southward along the glacier's west side.

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West Antarctic Ice Sheet

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains that lies in the Western Hemisphere.

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Wisconsin Range

The Wisconsin Range is a major mountain range of the Horlick Mountains in Antarctica, comprising the Wisconsin Plateau and numerous glaciers, ridges and peaks bounded by the Reedy Glacier, Shimizu Ice Stream, Horlick Ice Stream and the interior ice plateau. Reedy Glacier and Wisconsin Range are Transantarctic Mountains.

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See also

Glaciers of Marie Byrd Land

Glaciers of the Ross Dependency

Gould Coast

Queen Maud Mountains

Transantarctic Mountains

References

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

Also known as Abbey Nunatak, Blubaugh Nunatak, Cohen Nunatak, Colorado Glacier, Davisville Glacier, Gardiner Glacier, Graton Nunatak, Gratton Nunatak, Hatcher Bluffs, Horlick Ice Stream, Hueneme Glacier, Johns Glacier, Kansas Glacier, Langford Peak, McCarthy Glacier, Morales Peak, Mount Pool, Norfolk Glacier, Olentangy Glacier, Penrod Nunatak, Quonset Glacier, Racine Nunatak, Savage Nunatak, Spear Nunatak, Strickland Nunatak, Wotkyns Glacier.