Denman Glacier is a glacier 11 to 16 km (7 to 10 mi) wide, descending north some 110 km (70 mi), which debouches into the Shackleton Ice Shelf east of David Island, Queen Mary Land. It was discovered in November 1912 by the Western Base party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson. Mawson named the glacier for Lord Denman, Governor-General of Australia in 1911, a patron of the expedition.[1]
The canyon under Denman Glacier has been found by the BedMachine Antarctica project (under the leadership of the University of California, Irvine)[2] to be the deepest natural location on land (or at least not under liquid water) worldwide, with the bedrock being 3,500 m (11,500 ft) below sea level.[3][4]
Calving of Denman Glacier into the Mawson Sea gives rise to the periodically appearing Pobeda Ice Island.
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^Mathieu Morlighem; Eric Rignot; Tobias Binder; Donald Blankenship; Reinhard Drews; Graeme Eagles; Olaf Eisen; Fausto Ferraccioli; René Forsberg; Peter Fretwell; Vikram Goel; Jamin S. Greenbaum; Hilmar Gudmundsson; Jingxue Guo; Veit Helm; Coen Hofstede; Ian Howat; Angelika Humbert; Wilfried Jokat; Nanna B. Karlsson; Won Sang Lee; Kenichi Matsuoka; Romain Millan; Jeremie Mouginot; John Paden; Frank Pattyn; Jason Roberts; Sebastian Rosier; Antonia Ruppel; Helene Seroussi; Emma C. Smith; Daniel Steinhage; Bo Sun; Michiel R. van den Broeke; Tas D. van Ommen; Melchior van Wessem; Duncan A. Young (2019-12-12). "Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet". Nature Geoscience. 13 (2): 132–137. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0510-8. S2CID 209331991. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
DenmanGlacier is a glacier 11 to 16 km (7 to 10 mi) wide, descending north some 110 km (70 mi), which debouches into the Shackleton Ice Shelf east of...
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seaward end, protruding above the lower reaches of DenmanGlacier near the point where the glacier meets the coast. It was discovered by the Western Base...
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1,380 m high, rising above the continental ice on the west side of DenmanGlacier, 11 miles south of Mount Barr Smith, in Antarctica. It was discovered...
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nautical miles (15 km) northwest of Mount Strathcona near the head of DenmanGlacier in Antarctica. It was mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy...
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