Byrd Glacier information

The Byrd Glacier (80°20′S 159°00′E / 80.333°S 159.000°E / -80.333; 159.000 (Byrd Glacier)) is a major glacier in Antarctica, about 136 km (85 mi)...

the Byrd Glacier there is a chain of mountains broken by glaciers that flow down from the plateau region to Byrd Glacier. Several short glaciers run down...

reference points and benchmarks throughout much of Marie Byrd Land during 1966–1968. USS Glacier (AGB-4) explored the parts of the Walgreen Coast and Eights...

Mount Olympus to the west of Lieske Glacier. Peckham Glacier flows south from Mount McClintock into Byrd Glacier. Mount Quackenbush is to the southwest...

Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea. It is a...

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Wotkyns, hospital corpsman at Byrd Station in 1962. 86°01′S 131°48′W / 86.017°S 131.800°W / -86.017; -131.800. A glacier at the south side of Quartz...

streams List of glaciers in the Antarctic List of places in Antarctica below sea level Byrd Glacier Pobeda Ice Island "Denman Glacier". Geographic Names...

bordering the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. They are south of the Britannia Range and north of the Geologists...

at its mouth. It has the largest catchment area between David Glacier and Byrd Glacier, and drains about 5.23±0.59 gigatonnes of ice per year into the...

The Byrd Station is a former research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by U.S. Navy Seabees during Operation...

aircraft, and ground survey from fixed stations close to Byrd Glacier and moving stations on the glacier itself. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download...

Thwaites Glacier is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier located east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. It was initially...

Couzens Bay, the peninsula tipped by Cape Selbourne is at the mouth of Byrd Glacier, which flows from the west into the Ross Ice Shelf. To the west is the...

540 m (8,330 ft). It is subglacial, covered permanently by the largest glacier in the world. Therefore, it is not included in any list on the page. If...

successively mapped by the ByrdAE (1928-30) and (1933-35) and by the USAS (1939-41) all led by R. Admiral R.E. Byrd. The glacier is named for Gerard Swope...

2 mi) wide separating the west-flowing Boyd Glacier and Arthur Glacier in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap...

800 metres (2,600 ft) high on the ridge between Land Glacier and Paschal Glacier in Marie Byrd Land. It stands midway between Mount McCoy and Pearson...

Transantarctic Mountains to the polar plateau. The Leverett Glacier was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence...

219 ft) in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It is directly south of Bear Peninsula and is bounded by Smith Glacier, Pope Glacier and Haynes Glacier. Volcanic activity...

Laurence Gould, leader of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (Byrd AE) geological party which sledged past the mouth of the glacier in December 1929. According...

glaciers of Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Marie Byrd Land. Arthur Davis Glacier Arthur Glacier Balchen...

Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The range is about 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) long and stands between the base of Martin Peninsula and Smith Glacier. The...

lower part of Leverett Glacier and the head of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. They were discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition...

450 ft) on the north side of Byrd Glacier. The feature is immediately east of DeVries Glacier, where the latter enters Byrd Glacier. The bluff was named by...

and the terminus of Merrick Glacier, where the glacial flow is forced east at an acute angle upon entering Byrd Glacier. It was named by the Advisory...

who named it for the daughter of Fridtjof Nansen. Richard E. Byrd chose this glacier as his route to the Polar Plateau on 28 November 1929 when he flew...