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34 relations: Antarctic Research Centre, Antarctica, Asgard Range, Beacon Supergroup, Beacon Valley, Booth Island, Diabase, Diane McKnight, Discovery Expedition, Gondwana, Kukri Hills, Lake Bonney (Antarctica), Lake Washburn (Antarctica), MacDonald Hills, McMurdo Dry Valleys, McMurdo Sound, NASA Earth Observatory, New Harbour (Antarctica), New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee, Nimrod Expedition, Operation Deep Freeze, Public domain, Riegel (glacial), Robert Falcon Scott, Sill (geology), Taylor Glacier, Terra Nova Expedition, The Pyramid (Antarctica), Transantarctic Mountains, United States Geological Survey, Ventifact, Victoria Land, Victoria Valley, Wright Valley.
- McMurdo Dry Valleys geography stubs
- Transantarctic Mountains
- Valleys of Victoria Land
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. Taylor Valley and Asgard Range are McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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Beacon Supergroup
The Beacon Supergroup is a geological formation exposed in Antarctica and deposited from the Devonian to the Triassic.
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Beacon Valley
Beacon Valley is an ice-free valley between Pyramid Mountain and Beacon Heights, in the Quartermain Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Taylor Valley and Beacon Valley are valleys of Victoria Land.
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Booth Island
Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a Y-shaped island, long and rising to in the northeast part of the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.
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Diabase
Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.
Diane McKnight
Diane McKnight (born March 22, 1953) is a distinguished professor of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and a fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR).
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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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Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
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Kukri Hills
Kukri Hills is a prominent east-west trending range, about long and over high, forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley on the north, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Taylor Valley and Kukri Hills are McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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Lake Bonney (Antarctica)
Lake Bonney is a saline lake with permanent ice cover at the western end of Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Taylor Valley and lake Bonney (Antarctica) are McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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Lake Washburn (Antarctica)
Lake Washburn is a lake that formerly existed in the Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Taylor Valley and lake Washburn (Antarctica) are McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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MacDonald Hills
The MacDonald Hills are a compact group of exposed rock hills in the Asgard Range, east of Commonwealth Glacier on the north side of lower Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Taylor Valley and MacDonald Hills are McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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McMurdo Dry Valleys
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. Taylor Valley and McMurdo Dry Valleys are Transantarctic Mountains and valleys of Victoria Land.
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McMurdo Sound
The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately from the South Pole.
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NASA Earth Observatory
NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.
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New Harbour (Antarctica)
New Harbour is a bay about wide between Cape Bernacchi and Butter Point along the coast of Victoria Land, due west of Ross Island.
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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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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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Operation Deep Freeze
Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on.
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Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Riegel (glacial)
A riegel (from German, literally crossbar) is a transverse ridge of bedrock that has been exposed by glacial erosion.
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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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Sill (geology)
In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock.
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Taylor Glacier
The Taylor Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills. Taylor Valley and Taylor Glacier 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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The Pyramid (Antarctica)
The Pyramid is a small but distinctive peak in Antarctica just south of Pyramid Trough, at the west side of the Koettlitz Glacier.
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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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Ventifact
A ventifact (also wind-faceted stone, windkanter) is a rock that has been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved, or polished by wind-driven sand or ice crystals.
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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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Victoria Valley
Victoria Valley is an extensive ice-free valley, formerly occupied by a large glacier, extending from Victoria Upper Glacier to Victoria Lower Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Taylor Valley and Victoria Valley are McMurdo Dry Valleys and valleys of Victoria Land.
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Wright Valley
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Taylor Valley and Wright Valley are McMurdo Dry Valleys, Transantarctic Mountains and valleys of Victoria Land.
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See also
McMurdo Dry Valleys geography stubs
- Andersen Creek
- Anderson Scarp
- Bohner Stream
- Butler Summit
- Canada Peak
- Cleft Ledge
- Clow Island
- Don Quixote Pond
- Doolittle Bluff
- Doran Glacier
- Doran Stream
- Friis Hills
- Gupwell Pond
- Gurkha Peak
- Hall Bluff
- Kurasawa Pond
- Lake Hoare
- Lake Joyce
- Linnaeus Terrace
- Lizotte Creek
- Lyons Creek (Antarctica)
- Matsumoto Pond
- McKay Creek
- McKelvey Valley
- Mount Booth
- Mount Hercules
- Mount McLennan (Victoria Land)
- Mount Torii
- Murray Pond
- Penhale Peak
- Plane Table Glacier
- Prospect Mesa
- Sanders Nunatak
- Schultz Glacier
- Shaw Trough
- Stepping Stone Pond
- Taylor Valley
- Vincent Creek
- Watanuki Pond
- Williams Pond
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
Valleys of Victoria Land
- Balham Valley
- Barwick Valley
- Beacon Valley
- Garwood Valley
- Greenville Valley
- Heil Valley
- Marshall Valley
- McKelvey Valley
- McMurdo Dry Valleys
- Miers Valley
- Pearse Valley
- Riu ō Te Ata Valley
- Shaw Trough
- Taylor Valley
- Towle Valley
- Victoria Valley
- Ward Valley
- Wright Valley
References
Also known as Aiken Creek, Andrews Creek, Andrews Ridge, Bonney Riegel, Bowles Creek, Canada Stream, Commonwealth Glacier, Commonwealth Stream, Coral Ridge, Crescent Stream, Delta Stream, Furlong Creek (Antarctica), Green Creek (Antarctica), Harnish Creek, Huey Creek, Lacroix Glacier, Lake Chad (Antarctica), Lost Seal Stream, Many Glaciers Pond, Maria Creek, Matterhorn Glacier (Antarctica), McKnight Creek, Mount J. J. Thomson, Mummy Pond, Nussbaum Riegel, Parera Pond, Spaulding Pond, Suess Glacier, The Defile, Ventifact Knobs, Von Guerard Stream.