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. ^[1]

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1. 18 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Col, Escarpment, Glacier, Harold Byrd Mountains, Laurence McKinley Gould, Leverett Glacier, Mount Analogue, New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee, New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, Queen Maud Mountains, Reedy Glacier, Richard E. Byrd, Ross Ice Shelf, Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains), Tapley Mountains, Thomas J. Watson, United States Geological Survey.

2. Escarpments of Antarctica
3. Landforms of Marie Byrd Land

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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Col

A col in geomorphology is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks.

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Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.

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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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Harold Byrd Mountains

The Harold Byrd Mountains are a group of exposed mountains and nunataks which extend in an east–west direction between the lower part of Leverett Glacier and the head of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

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Laurence McKinley Gould

Laurence McKinley Gould (August 22, 1896 – June 21, 1995) was an American geologist, educator, and polar explorer.

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Leverett Glacier

The Leverett Glacier is about long and wide, flowing from the Antarctic Plateau to the south end of the Ross Ice Shelf through the Queen Maud Mountains.

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Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing is a classic allegorical adventure novel by the early 20th-century French novelist René Daumal.

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New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent.

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New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica.

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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.

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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.

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Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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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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Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains)

The Scott Glacier is a major glacier, long, that drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf.

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Tapley Mountains

The Tapley Mountains is a range of mountains fronting on the eastern side of the Scott Glacier, extending eastward for between Leverett Glacier and Albanus Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica.

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Thomas J. Watson

Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM.

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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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See also

Escarpments of Antarctica

• Andersen Escarpment
• Bermel Escarpment
• Crescent Scarp
• Explora Escarpment
• Founders Escarpment
• Gale Escarpment
• Goettel Escarpment
• Havola Escarpment
• Jones Escarpment
• Kirwan Escarpment
• Kuiper Scarp
• MacQuarrie Edge
• Mawson Escarpment
• Pioneers Escarpment
• Thompson Escarpment
• Usas Escarpment
• Watson Escarpment
• White Escarpment

Landforms of Marie Byrd Land

• Alaska Canyon
• Balchunas Pass
• Bentley Subglacial Trench
• Bowyer Butte
• Byrd Subglacial Basin
• Hobbs Coast
• Hollick-Kenyon Plateau
• Rockefeller Plateau
• Ruppert Coast
• Saunders Coast
• Usas Escarpment
• Walgreen Coast
• Watson Escarpment

References

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

Also known as Acarospora Peak, Beacon Dome, Burlock Peak, California Plateau, Cleveland Mesa, Cole Peak, Dunn Spur, Dzema Peak, Foreman Peak, Hunt Spur, Kivi Peak, Long Valley (Antarctica), Lowe Bluff, Maaske Dome, McLean Peak, Michigan Plateau, Mink Peak, Mount Analogue (Antarctica), Mount Beazley, Mount Blackburn (Antarctica), Mount Czegka, Mount Doumani, Mount Meeks, Mount O'Neil, Mount Ratliff, Mount Riley, Mount Russell (Antarctica), Mount Simsarian, Mount Warden, Parker Bluff, Phleger Dome, Roaring Ridge, Roberts Ridge, Schmidt Peak, Shapley Ridge, Skilift Col, Stanford Plateau, Teller Peak.

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