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34 relations: Adrian Hayter, Allan Hills 77005, Allan Hills 84001, Allan Hills A81005, ANSMET, Antarctic Plateau, Bacteria, Bill Clinton, Carapace Nunatak, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Convoy Range, Dennes Point, Tasmania, Diabase, Edna P. Plumstead, Jurassic, Life on Mars, Mackay Glacier, Maiden Castle, Dorset, Mawson Formation, Mawson Glacier, Microfossil, New Zealand, New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme, Oates Land, Odell Glacier, Otokar Feistmantel, Otto Nordenskjöld, Outcrop, Robin Allan, Scythians, Tom Harris (botanist), University of Canterbury, Victoria Land, William A. Cassidy.
- Hills of Oates Land
- Hills of Victoria Land
- Transantarctic Mountains
Adrian Hayter
Adrian Goodenough Hayter (22 December 1914 – 14 June 1990) was a New Zealand soldier, sailor, Antarctic expedition leader and author.
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Allan Hills 77005
Allan Hills 77005 (also known as Allan Hills A77005, ALHA77005, ALH77005 and ALH-77005) is a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills of Antarctica in 1977 by a Japanese National Institute of Polar Research mission team and ANSMET.
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Allan Hills 84001
Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) is a fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project.
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Allan Hills A81005
Allan Hills A81005 or ALH A81005 (sometimes also named without the "A" in front of the number) was the first lunar meteorite found on Earth. Allan Hills and Allan Hills A81005 are Transantarctic Mountains.
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ANSMET
ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) is a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains.
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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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Carapace Nunatak
Carapace Nunatak is a prominent isolated nunatak, the most westerly near the head of Mackay Glacier in Victoria Land, standing southwest of Mount Brooke where it is visible for a considerable distance from many directions.
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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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Convoy Range
Convoy Range is a broad range in Antarctica. Allan Hills and Convoy Range are Scott Coast.
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Dennes Point, Tasmania
Dennes Point is a semi-rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Kingborough in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania.
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Diabase
Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.
Edna P. Plumstead
Edna Pauline Plumstead (née Janisch; 15 September 1903 Cape Town – 23 September 1989 Johannesburg) was a South African palaeobotanist, of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she graduated in 1924.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Life on Mars
The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to the planet's proximity and similarities to Earth.
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Mackay Glacier
Mackay Glacier is a large glacier in Victoria Land, descending eastward from the Antarctic Plateau, between the Convoy Range and Clare Range, into the southern part of Granite Harbour. Allan Hills and Mackay Glacier are Scott Coast.
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Maiden Castle, Dorset
Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset.
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Mawson Formation
The Mawson Formation is a geological formation in Antarctica, dating to roughly between 182 and 177 million years ago and covering the Toarcian stages of the Jurassic Period in the Mesozoic Era.
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Mawson Glacier
The Mawson Glacier is a large glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, descending eastward from the Antarctic Plateau to the north of Trinity Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range, to enter the Ross Sea, where it forms the Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue. Allan Hills and Mawson Glacier are Scott Coast.
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Microfossil
A microfossil is a fossil that is generally between 0.001 mm and 1 mm in size, the visual study of which requires the use of light or electron microscopy.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme
The New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme (NZARP) was a research programme that operated a permanent research facility in Antarctica from 1959 to 1996.
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Oates Land
Oates Land is a region of Antarctica.
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Odell Glacier
The Odell Glacier is a glacier draining northeast between Allan Hills and Coombs Hills into the upper Mawson Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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Otokar Feistmantel
Otokar Eduard Franz Karel Feistmantel (other spellings include Otakar Feistmantl) (20 November 1848 in Stará Huť – 10 February 1891 in Prague) was a Czech-Austrian (born in Bohemia) geologist and paleontologist who studied in Prague and Berlin and worked with the Geological Survey of India in India, where he replaced Ferdinand Stoliczka who died of altitude sickness on an expedition in 1874.
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Otto Nordenskjöld
Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.
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Outcrop
An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth and other terrestrial planets.
Robin Allan
Robin Sutcliffe Allan (7 September 1900 – 5 July 1966) was a New Zealand geologist and university professor.
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Scythians
The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
Tom Harris (botanist)
Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 was an English paleobotanist.
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University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury (UC; Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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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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William A. Cassidy
William A. Cassidy (3 January 1928 – 22 March 2020) was an American geologist and professor emeritus of Geology and Planetary Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
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See also
Hills of Oates Land
- Allan Hills
- Bastion Hill
- Brown Hills
- Colbert Hills (Antarctica)
- Davis Knoll
- Goorkha Craters
- Meteorite Hills
- Morris Heights (East Antarctica)
- Turbidite Hill
- Wilson Hills
- Wright Hill
Hills of Victoria Land
- Allan Hills
- Briggs Hill
- Caudal Hills
- Crown Hills (Antarctica)
- Denton Hills
- Ebel Hills
- Flint Ridge
- Friis Hills
- Hendy Hills
- Keble Hills
- MacDonald Hills
- McAllister Hills
- Mount Armytage
- Northern Foothills
- Random Hills
- Ricker Hills
- Sequence Hills
Transantarctic Mountains
- Allan Hills
- Allan Hills A81005
- Carlstrom Foothills
- Carnegie Range
- Churchill Mountains
- Cobham Range
- Darley Hills
- Forrestal Range
- Holyoake Range
- Horlick Mountains
- Kukri Peneplain
- Long Hills
- McMurdo Dry Valleys
- Meyer Desert Formation biota
- Nash Range
- Neptune Range
- Ohio Range
- Patuxent Range
- Pensacola Mountains
- Prince Albert Mountains
- Queen Alexandra Range
- Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica)
- Queen Maud Mountains
- Reedy Glacier
- South Pole Traverse
- Surveyors Range
- Taylor Valley
- Tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains
- Thiel Mountains
- Transantarctic Mountains
- West Antarctic Rift System
- Whitmore Mountains
- Wisconsin Range
- Wright Valley
References
Also known as Ballance Peak, Brock Gully, Coxcomb Peak, Dennes Point, Feistmantel Valley, Gadarene Ridge, Halle Flat, Harris Valley, Kirkaldy Spur, Kirkcaldy Spur, Lavallee Point, MacDonald Spur, Maiden Castle (Antarctica), Mixon Rocks, Mount Watters, Plumstead Valley, Punchbowl Cirque, R.S. Allan, Roscolyn Tor, Scythian Nunatak, Shimmering Icefield, Ship Cone, Shipton Ridge, Stopes Point, Tilman Ridge, Todd Gully, Toltec Butte, Townrow Peak, Trudge Valley, Warren Peak, Windwhistle Peak.