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Mount Falconer

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Mount Falconer is a mountain, high, surmounting Lake Fryxell on the north wall of Taylor Valley, between Mount McLennan and Commonwealth Glacier in Antarctica. [1]

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  1. 15 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctic Research Centre, Antarctica, Asgard Range, Beardmore Glacier, Canada Glacier, Cape Evans, Lake Fryxell, Mount McLennan, Mount McLennan (Victoria Land), Robert Falcon Scott, Taylor Valley, Terra Nova Expedition, Thomas Griffith Taylor, Victoria 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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Antarctic Research Centre

The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington.

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Antarctica

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

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Asgard Range

The Asgard Range is a mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mount Falconer and Asgard Range are McMurdo Dry Valleys.

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Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of.

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Canada Glacier

Canada Glacier is a small glacier flowing south-east into the northern side of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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Cape Evans

Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay.

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Lake Fryxell

Lake Fryxell is a frozen lake long, between Canada Glacier and Commonwealth Glaciers at the lower end of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mount Falconer and lake Fryxell are McMurdo Dry Valleys.

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Mount McLennan

Mount McLennan is a mountain south of the Howard Hills in the northeast part of the Scott Mountains, Enderby Land, Antarctica.

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Mount McLennan (Victoria Land)

Mount McLennan is a prominent mountain rising over at the north side of Taylor Valley, surmounting the area at the heads of Canada Glacier, Commonwealth Glacier and Loftus Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mount Falconer and mount McLennan (Victoria Land) are McMurdo Dry Valleys.

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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the ''Terra Nova'' expedition of 1910–13.

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Taylor Valley

Taylor Valley is an ice-free valley about long, once occupied by the receding Taylor Glacier. Mount Falconer and Taylor Valley are McMurdo Dry Valleys.

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Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913.

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Thomas Griffith Taylor

Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor (1 December 1880 – 5 November 1963) was an English-born geographer, anthropologist and world explorer.

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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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References

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

Also known as Ghent Ridge, Harvard Tarn, Henderson Hill, Huey Gully, Mount Keohane, Penn Tarn, Perk Summit, Princeton Tarn, Scholars Peak, Tarn Valley, Yale Tarn.